Having just eaten a huge turkey dinner for Thanksgiving, I’m sitting lazily by my computer and wondering why turkey always makes me sleepy. I’ve heard that there’s something called triptofan (tryptofan? tryptophan?) in turkey that does this, but I’m skeptical. What’s the scoop, Dave?
My family is really into Thanksgiving, which I’ve always liked as a holiday. Turkey, desserts, football, family, what’s not to like? This year, however, my kid sister was complaining that we should skip eating turkey because it has an abnormally high amount of “triptofan” [ed: it’s actually spelled tryptophan]. What is tryptophan and why should we avoid it?
Did someone “invent” thanksgiving, and if so, what was it about? Today it seems to be all about turkey, but what was the original celebration?
