By Zoe Schlanger
Thanksgiving Day (click here) will be the 1,308th day of the Flint water crisis. For residents, that’s 1,308 days without being able to drink from the tap. Flint’s presence has waned in the news, but it remains a very real crisis for those in the city that still stack pallets of water bottles in the corner of their kitchen and can’t turn on the faucet for a glass of water.
Cooking a Thanksgiving meal with bottled water is a unique challenge. Melissa Mays used 58 bottles to cook her family’s Thanksgiving meal last year. “I ended up with blisters on my fingers from opening that many bottles,” she told Quartz over the phone on Tuesday (Nov. 21)....
Thaw turkey: 24 bottles
Soak turkey in brine: 9 bottles
Turkey rinse: 3 bottles
Rinse veggies: 6 bottles
Couscous and lentil: 10 bottles
Mashed potatoes: 6 bottles...
Team Flint
November 9, 2017
Flint natives (click here) Geena Gall (right) Jenna Walter (center) and Audra Walter (left) pose for a photo after raising money for water relief in their home town by running the Denver Rock n' Roll Half Marathon.
