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This year, like every year, my mother will roast a turkey for Thanksgiving. She will also make the stuffing and the mashed potatoes, the gravy and the green beans, and all her kids and their spouses and children will come over for dinner. My sister and I will volunteer to help, but we know she won’t really want it. This is her kitchen and she likes it how she likes it. Maybe, just maybe, she will let me trim the green beans.

But she will ask for advice — because I work for a cooking site and I should know things about food, right? And when she asks me how long she should cook the turkey and at what temperature (even though, as I’ve mentioned, she’s been doing this forever), I will have informed answers.

That’s because this year, I decided to roast a turkey — just because. Because I work for a cooking site and should know things about food. Because one day my mother might not want to host Thanksgiving. Because roasting a turkey feels like the kind of thing one should do before one turns 4o (even if that is still a few years away).

So, I roasted a turkey for the very first time. And this is what I learned.

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