{"id":1284,"date":"2010-04-18T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2010-04-18T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:45:07","slug":"turducken-the-untold-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2010\/04\/18\/turducken-the-untold-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Turducken: The untold story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people claim to have invented turducken, or to know who did. Everybody puts its origin in Louisiana. Those crazy Cajuns! A boneless chicken inside a boneless duck inside a boneless turkey! Who else would do something like that? <\/p>\n<p>Prince Albert, apparently. <!--more--> Yes, Victoria&#8217;s husband. Maxime de la Falaise writes of their son Edward VII:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the dishes that his father&#8217;s German family had enjoyed was a turkey stuffed with a chicken, inside the chicken a pheasant, inside the pheasant a woodcock\u00a0\u2014 the whole made into a pie and served cold. <cite>Seven Centuries of English Cooking (New York: Grove Press, 1973), p. 201<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like turducken to me, only crazier. With a woodcock! In a pie! Served cold! <\/p>\n<p>Those crazy Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people claim to have invented turducken, or to know who did. Everybody puts its origin in Louisiana. Those crazy Cajuns! A boneless chicken inside a boneless duck inside a boneless turkey! Who else would do something like that? Prince Albert, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,229,369],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-kI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}