Wild Turkey Chase...

... and I don't mean the bourbon. Yesterday, my roommate and I set out in search of a turkey for the Thanksgiving dinner that we are hosting for some friends here next weekend. Turkey is not a staple in Korean grocery stores, or department store markets for that matter, so it is much more difficult to find than most of the other traditional Thanksgiving dishes. And since it is the centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner, we have been eagerly trying to procure one. Word has it that Costco, the American wholesale warehouse chain, occasionally stocks turkeys, and so we traveled north of Ulsan to the nearest Costco location in Daegu. To make a long story short, we didn't find any turkeys, but we did find some foods that we'd been without since leaving the States, which was nice, and another item that is always on my family's Thanksgiving table: Martinelli's sparkling cider. So, it looks as if we will have a turkey-less Thanksgiving, but one must make concessions. Now all that's left is to actually prepare the other parts of the meal; hopefully it'll be a success even without the dead bird.