感恩节大餐有问题就打这支电话：农业部肉类家禽热线节日当天上午8时至下午2时有专家值守
感恩节是许多美国家庭一年里做得最大的一顿饭，光火鸡去年就有4600多万只上了节日餐桌。美国农业部食品安全检验局提醒，备餐拿不准的时候，有一条免费热线可以打。
农业部肉类家禽热线号码是1-888-MPHotline（1-888-674-6854），平时周一至周五上午10时至下午6时（美东时间）有食品安全专家接听，英语和西班牙语都可以。感恩节当天11月26日，热线从上午8时开到下午2时（美东时间），专家实时答疑。
食品安全检验局还在网上备了一整套感恩节工具包，覆盖盐水腌制、火鸡填馅、油炸火鸡、剩菜存放等主题，还有一段专门讲为什么不能洗火鸡的视频，以及《聊聊火鸡》手册等免费材料。
剩菜能放多久，可以查农业部的 FoodKeeper 应用，里面收录了500多种食品在冰箱、冷冻室和食品柜里的存放期限，涵盖婴儿食品、乳制品、蛋类、肉类、家禽、农产品和海鲜，支持英语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语。
今年感恩节是11月26日。第一次独立操办节日大餐的读者，不妨提前把热线号码和工具包存好，真到手忙脚乱的时候不用现找。
（来源：美国农业部）
Thanksgiving Questions? USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline Staffs Live Experts from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET on the Holiday
Thanksgiving is the largest meal most American households cook all year; last year more than 46 million turkeys were carved and eaten at Thanksgiving. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reminds home cooks that a free hotline is there when the big meal gets overwhelming.
The USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline, 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854), is staffed regularly from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday, with live food safety experts available in English and Spanish. On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, the hotline is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern.
FSIS has also built an online Thanksgiving toolkit covering brining, stuffing turkeys, deep frying a turkey, properly storing leftovers and preparing a bacteria-free Thanksgiving, plus videos on why it is not safe to wash a turkey and free publications including the Let's Talk Turkey brochure.
For leftovers, USDA's FoodKeeper app gives storage timelines for the refrigerator, freezer and pantry for more than 500 products, including baby food, dairy products and eggs, meat, poultry, produce and seafood, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Thanksgiving this year falls on November 26. First-time hosts may want to save the hotline number and the toolkit before the day itself gets hectic.
(Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
来源：美国农业部
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