Basic Roast Turkey

Aside from my recipe for roast chicken and perhaps a risotto or two, I don’t think any recipe of mine has been reprinted, cooked from, and snared on the Internet more than this turkey.

I made it in honor of Thanksgiving on television on Good Morning America, where in her first forays into television Sara Moulton was the resident chef. Previously, she had worked for Julia Child. After the show, Julia called Sara and said: “Dear, they really s