Wild goose recipes get a bad rap. Goose meat is “often, yet unfairly, maligned,” as my friend Mark Norquist of Modern Carnivore likes to say. Or there’s the joke, “How to properly cook a goose,” which ...

Cooking a goose will result in as much as a quart of goose fat. Some people cook their goose over vegetables, including carrots, onions and potatoes. “The vegetables end up almost deep fried,” Levy ...

For me, the fat is almost the point of cooking the goose. It is liquid gold. It has a silky texture and deep flavor and can be used for anything from frying onions to preserving food (confit). Goose ...