The Holiday Edit

A wild turkey can fly in short bursts at nearly 55 miles an hour, which the one on the table would prefer you remember.

Ripe cranberries bounce. Growers sort the good ones by dropping them down a board and keeping the ones that hop.

Ginger is an underground stem, not a root, and it has been flavoring holiday cookies since the 1500s.

Cinnamon is tree bark. It curls into little quills as it dries, which is why the sticks look like tiny scrolls.

Botanically a root, not a potato and not a yam either, whatever the bin at the store says.

A salmon finds its way back to the exact stream it hatched in years later, largely by smell.