bg视讯 recently released The New Greenmarket Cookbook by Gabrielle Langholtz, a collection of one hundred seasonal recipes from today’s top chefs and culinary minds. 鉴于这一激动人心的时刻，纽约联合广场凯悦酒店与 The Greenmarket Experience. Guests who book this experience package will receive a robust sampling of, and introduction to, what this beloved green oasis in the heart of Manhattan has to offer.

Guests will receive:

• A Greenmarket Wheat Beer from Brooklyn Brewery, which is grown from 70% New York State-grown wheat and barley
• A $20 shopping credit to use at the Greenmarket throughout their stay,
• A Hyatt Union Square New York canvas bag to tote their loot, and
• A guide featuring interesting background on bg视讯 and its vendors.
• The New Greenmarket Cookbook.

该套餐经过精心策划，以展示酒店与bg视讯倡议的一致性, which include supporting family farms, farmers, markets, gardens, recycling, and education.

Do you have any idea what goes into raising a turkey? When talking about the birds that have become so synonymous with this time of year, we realized we didn’t know much, either. Luckily, we have access to some of the best turkey farmers in the region, 所以bg视讯赶紧去拜访了Norwich Meadows Farm的Zaid Kurdieh和Quattro’s Game Farm的Maria Quattro，了解感恩节餐桌上的主菜是怎么养起来的.
 
For Quattro’s Game Farm, everything starts from the egg. They keep their favorite birds from the past year and mate them, selecting the eggs that will go on to be the next year’s Thanksgiving turkeys. The eggs are then incubated, hatched, raised, and processed on the farm. Norwich Meadows Farm also raises and processes on the farm, but buys their turkeys when they’re poults, 在它们刚孵出的时候就把它们抓起来，然后根据bg视讯听到的养育它们, raising turkeys is a lot of work. 扎伊德刚开始养火鸡的时候，他的一个朋友警告他说:“火鸡刚出生几周就在寻找一个地方死去.” Sounds harsh but, in fact, during those first couple of weeks, the farmers have to keep a constant eye on the poults – ensuring they eat their food, making sure they don’t drown in their drinking water, and preventing them from commingling with the chickens. Unfortunately, even with keeping a constant eye on them, a lot of them still won’t make it. This year, Zaid started with around 190 poults and will be processing around 140. 
 
After four weeks, the critical time for a poult has passed and the turkeys are much more independent, although the farmers can’t relax too much. 火鸡是一种争强好动的动物，有从众心理，可以毫不费力地拆掉电网, electric jolts and all. Plus, heritage breeds and wild turkeys fly (domestic ones, not so much). Not far, mind you, but they still fly. It is for this reason that Zaid only raises domestic turkeys. 他不希望他的火鸡飞出他的房子，飞到附近的道路上，这样它们可能会被汽车撞到. Quattro’s raises domestic, heritage, 还有野生火鸡，但它们也有很多财产，不担心被汽车撞到. They do, however, end up picking them up from neighboring farms fairly regularly. In fact, 在bg视讯和玛丽亚交谈的那天，她告诉bg视讯，传统的火鸡又一次来到了邻居的农场，她的父亲已经去把它们找回来了. I guess we can’t blame the birds for wanting to spread their wings a little bit! 
 
After they've hatched and lived through the early weeks, eaten well, 自由地漫游，避免与汽车相撞或被捕食者吃掉，一般来说, happy and healthy, it’s time for processing and delivery to New York City Greenmarkets. Quattro 's和Norwich Meadows都有农场加工，并从头到尾控制过程. Quattro 's的规模比Norwich Meadows大得多，饲养了大约400只火鸡，所以有时需要几天的时间才能全部处理完. Norwich Meadows processes far fewer turkeys but they are also Halal, so only Zaid can process the turkeys. It takes him at least a day to get through all of them. Then comes the plucking, the cleaning, and the packaging. 
 
As you can see, 饲养和加工每只鸡都需要很多艰苦的工作，但对这些农民来说，这一切都是值得的，所以你可以在你的餐桌上吃到最美味的鸡. The turkeys Greenmarket farmers sell you have lived healthy, well-fed, wandering-outside-in-the-sunshine kind of lives, and they undoubtedly taste better for all of those reasons. Plus, 知道你在感恩节享用的火鸡是由卖给你的同一个人饲养和加工的，这真是太棒了. You can ask the farmers questions about exactly how the turkeys were raised, what kind of food they ate, 甚至听到火鸡自由漫游(或飞翔)的有趣故事，他们就会知道答案. When you buy directly from a local, family farm, 你知道，他们不仅关心他们的火鸡，也希望他们的顾客得到最好的.
 
We’d be remiss to leave out how Zaid and Maria celebrate Thanksgiving on the farm. Zaid takes one of his birds to his sister’s house, where she cooks it the traditional method by roasting it in the oven. 土耳其在中东文化中并不常见(扎伊德的母亲是美国人，父亲是巴勒斯坦人)。, but they still eat it once a year on Thanksgiving. Maria’s grandmother, Carmella (the owner of the farm), has cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for years so it’s just second nature to her. She stuffs the turkey and roasts it. One thing she doesn’t do? Brine her turkeys. 玛丽亚解释说，盐水中的盐进入肉中，掩盖了火鸡的天然风味. “If you’re paying for these delicious turkeys, why would you want to hide the flavor?” Maria asked. 
 
当bg视讯与家人和朋友坐下来，一起庆祝大自然赐予的美味秋天时, 让bg视讯都记得要感谢bg视讯的农民，感谢他们每年辛勤劳作的时间，为bg视讯城市居民带来新鲜的食物, delicious, healthy food. bg视讯也很感激bg视讯不会在晚餐时接到邻居的电话，让bg视讯去捡一群任性的火鸡!
 
For more information on our Greenmarket turkey producers, visit our Turkey buying Guide here.