Aside from being a movie star,podcast hostandmusician,Kevin Baconis an enthusiastic home cook. So it’s no surprise that he has very specific ideas about the best way to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey.
“Last year we used mayonnaise on the turkey, and it was slamming,” says Bacon, 65,who is featuredin PEOPLE’sSexiest Man Alive issue, out now. “It gets really super crisp and moist inside.”
Bacon cites a recipe from food writer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt as his inspiration for using the staple condiment on the holiday bird.
Not only is the mayonnaise “very easy to spread evenly on the turkey,” Lopez-Alt wrote in a 2022New York Timesarticle, the egg proteins in mayo “also aid in browning and crisping, producing a turkey with burnished, deeply browned skin.”
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The turkey is just one aspect of the celebration Bacon has planned for his family, which includes his wife of 35 years,Kyra Sedgwick, 58, and children Travis, 34, and Sosie, 31.
“We have a big Thanksgiving at our house, we always do,” says theLeave the World Behindactor, who is the youngest of six children—and plans to host upwards of 30 people this year in his New York apartment.
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Bacon has beenan avid home cooksince his days as a struggling young actor in New York City, but he isn’t much of a recipe follower. He says he’s more “loosey goosey” in the kitchen than Sedgwick.
Still, last year’s turkey technique seems to have some staying power. “Every year we do something different, but I think I might have to go back to that again,” says Bacon. “It was really good.”
source: people.com
