Corby Kummer: Turkeys may be harder to find this holiday season

Holiday meals may look a little different this year due to numerous food shortages and high prices. Food writer Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio on Monday to share what you can expect at grocery stores.

While turkey shortages have happened in years prior, this season will be particularly rough: more than 6 million turkeys have died already this year due to avian flu outbreaks nationwide, and that number is expected to rise.

“Once there’s one turkey with avian flu, enormous warehouses full of turkeys have to be destroyed,” Kummer said.

Instead of panic-buying holiday staples like turkey, Kummer suggests switching to alternative holiday dishes, such as capon.

Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.