1. The Hot Brown sandwich is not supposed to be made with turkey. The original recipe called for pullet breasts. I know this because I used to know the chef who originated it, who worked at the Brown Hotel in Louisville at the time he created it.

2. In the evening of Thanksgiving I begin the real cooking process: I start the turkey stock from which I will make a glorious turkey noodle soup--with home-made noodles, none of this store-boughten stuff. My 30-year-old daughter maintains that "The chief reason for the existence of Thanksgiving is to produce a carcass for Dad's turkey noodle soup!"

Dave Oesterreich