Ducks and Geese

Cooking Goose Meat

Canada geese get a bad rap. Sky carp. Stinky, arrogant hissing birds. Yeah, Canadas can be nasty. But cooking a real, wild, Canada goose offers pleasures other waterfowl simply lack.

French

Hunter’s Stew and the Olympics

While watching the Olympics, I was struck by our ability to celebrate both similarities and differences, seemingly without contradiction. And the same holds true in food.

Recipe

Elderflower Syrup and Cordial

May is a wonderful month. Flowers are everywhere, fishing is getting into gear and the summer garden is laden with…

Ducks and Geese

Duck Rillette

Duck rillette. If you know what this is, you definitely know your food. If you don’t, think of it as…

Recipe

Eating the Mystical Snipe

I went on my first-ever snipe hunt recently, and as soon as I had four of the little marsh birds…

French

Classic Civet of Hare

This post could be subtitled, “Why the French aren’t all bad.” But then I could also fall back on the…

Recipe

Salmis of Wild Duck

Salmis (Sal-me) is one of those classic French preparations I love to make whenever the weather turns cool. We’ve actually…