
More homely than home: Jikoni
(Picture: Press handout)For anyone in their thirties, it’s difficult to consider the prospect of a Christmas without turkey, without thinking of Mark in the Peep Show losing his rag over what transpires to be a Christmas joke.
Nevertheless, with avian flu raging through the country’s poultry farms and wiping out over half of this year’s free-range turkeys — and a good few geese besides — it is a prospect many now face. Fortunately, the era in which no celebratory spread is complete without a hunk of meat as the centrepiece is slowly waning.