Cooking duck at home is a classic example of when my quest for perfection undermines the “tasty enough.” For years, I strove to create the idealized vision of roast duck that I held in my head. It had ...

Often used in Asian cuisine as well as in French cooking, duck meat is slightly darker in color than chicken or turkey, but is nonetheless still delicious—especially when you've got to right recipes ...

Complete with herbed endive salad in lemon-mustard dressing. Don’t let the long cook time fool you: Most of it is hands-off baking in the oven. Yuzu juice, mirin, sake and plum paste create an ...

The prospect of roasting a duck strikes many a home cook as a mountain too high, but I’m not sure why. It’s definitely no more complicated than cooking a whole turkey, and I think it tastes far better ...

For something so small and simple, a wild duck breast is too often tragically disrespected on plates at duck camps and around the family dinner table. Words such as “greasy” and “tough” or ...

The duck gets the spectacular treatment laid out by chef Marcus Samuelsson in his “Aquavit” cookbook, including a night marinating in strong coffee laced with shards of cinnamon sticks and green ...

If you’re a passionate waterfowl hunter, you might think you know how to cook duck. But do you really? Wilkins shared some of his best tips and tricks for cooking duck so that you can spend less time ...

So you’ve ordered Roy Choi’s killer smoked duck at Pot in Koreatown. And you’ve beaten the French bistro crowds for the duck confit at Republique or Church & State — or the duck ragout at Maccheroni ...

Both of our mothers were great hostesses, but one (who shall remain nameless) was a real "people person" who had her own quirky philosophy. "Darlings," she would advise her children, "don't bother ...

Cooking duck at home is a classic example of when my quest for perfection undermines the “tasty enough.” For years, I strove to create the idealized vision of roast duck that I held in my head. It had ...