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Edited on November 4, 2021:
Hi listeners! With Halloween behind, grocery stores have set out candy canes and my own sister-in-law decorated for Christmas yesterday! For me, I’m not ready for Christmas, mainly because I truly believe there should be an entire season to celebrate Thanksgiving! In that spirit, I’m re-releasing one of my favorite episodes ever, an interview with Paul Kelly, turkey farmer. While the entire flock of Kelly Bronze turkeys in the UK has been sold for Christmas already, Kelly Brozen recently expanded into the US and there *ARE* Thanksgiving turkeys still available here - contact information is available right here in the show notes. I’m excited to cook my first Kelly Bronze this season, thanks to their generosity, and will be sharing the experience in my Instagram stories - you can follow me there and if you cook a Kelly Bronze this year also, please let me know. OK, here we go with this fun, uplifting interview with Paul Kelly that will get you into the Thanksgiving spirit for sure!
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Original Content:
Kelly Bronze turkeys have been the centerpiece of the Royal Family’s Christmas dinner and have been specially requested by dignitaries as far as Dubai. Their turkeys are featured on the menus of Michelin-starred restaurants and the Bronze family have been celebrated across the UK.... But it wasn’t always this way.
In fact, there was a time when the Kelly family was in dire straits financially. The turkey market was oversaturated and as far as prices, well, as Paul says, it was a race to the bottom. Paul and his parents became the laughingstock of the turkey industry, when they traveled the UK buying up every non-genetically-modified turkey they could find and decided to rear the turkeys according to their natural life cycle. Most shocking of all the Kelly family allowed their turkeys to live and roam in the great outdoors.
It’s really a great success story and, beyond that, Paul is truly a great storyteller. Not everyone could make the history and life cycle of turkeys interesting, but I *promise* you’ll be hanging on Paul’s every nugget of knowledge and laughing all the way through.
(Oh, and p.s. Paul didn’t give me a turkey recipe! He gave me one of the most adventurous, challenging recipes I’ve made for the podcast thus far - his mother’s Steak and Kidney Pudding. I had lots of questions for him about this, and in the end, we genuinely enjoyed the result!!)
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Highlights of my interview with Paul Kelly of Kelly Bronze Turkeys
- I could use all sorts of fancy titles, but I hate that sort of thing
- The life cycle of the mass produced turkey (which grows 10x faster than the natural turkey)
- The natural, non-modified life cycle of turkeys
- The reaction when they began rearing turkeys outside
- In Holland, you need a license to keep animals OUTSIDE
- Predators for turkeys in Virginia vs the UK
- The 5 stages of development in any animal - and how the stages affect the taste of an animal
- Why a slow-grown turkey doesn’t need to be brined, basted, or enhanced in any way
- “Every turkey in the history of the world originated from Mexico” - a history lesson about turkeys
- The evolution of the modern white turkey - why it was popuarized - and what happened to the Bronze Turkeys
- The innovative, entrepreneurial approach of the Kelly family
- Why free-range alone doesn’t improve the taste of a turkey
- The critical reason dry-plucking the turkey massively improves the taste
- Michelin-starred restaurants feature Kelly Bronze Turkey Tartar
- “I wake up every morning and feel I must be the luckiest man alive.”
- Why America was the perfect next market
- “At the end of the day, quality wins.”
- “If anyone is passionate about something, everyone listens”
- The power of transparency in business
- “The consumer never really got involved in the conversation”
- “A man’s wealth is always measured by the fewness of his wants”
- Steak & Kidney Pudding
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Recipe Paul Kelly Shared With Us:
His mother's Steak and Kidney Pudding
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How to Find a Kelly Bronze Turkey in the US
The Virginia, USA location: 540-724-1654
Email the US location: usa@kellyturkeys.com
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Connect with Kelly Bronze
Website: www.kellybronze.co.uk
Instagram: @kellybronze
Facebook: Kelly Bronze Turkeys
Twitter: @KellyBronze
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