Today I learned how turkey got its name, thanks to the newsletter to which I am newly subscribed, Now I Know. Now I Know was recommended to me by a w.i.l.t. reader who sends out a daily dose of something he finds interesting.
So turkey. It’s actually indigenous to the US and Mexico. The bird, considered a delicacy, was brought to Europe via merchants in the East. It wholesaled out of Turkey so the British referred to it as “turkey birds,” as everything sold out of Turkey, regardless of its origin, was named. Now I know.
And now I do, too.
Turkeys definitely seemed hard to come by here in Ankara.
