the same sort of deceptive tricks are used to photograph turkeys. When a turkey is cooked, it gets wrinkles and the skin dose not always look very appealing. So the photographer cooks it only part-way, so the skin doesn't wrinkle. To make the skin look very tight, it is sewn with needle and thread underneath. Then the bird can be painted with red and brown food coloring or molasses to give it that "cooked" look. Finally, that handy tool, the blowtorch, is used to make the skin and legs look brown as if it had just come out of the oven.