In 1986, Marcelle Bienvenu published a fried turkey recipe in her New Orleans Times-Picayune "Cooking Creole" column, and Justin Wilson cooked a deep-fried turkey on his popular Louisiana Cookin' television show, which aired across the country on PBS. But the real breakout moment for deep fried turkey seems to have occurred in October 1987, when the members of the Newspaper Food Editors and Writers Association descended upon New Orleans for their annual meeting.
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