Roasting a Perfect Goose or Duck

By Hank Shaw

Photograph: Elise Bauer

[Editor’s Note: This recipe for roast goose or duck appears in Hank Shaw’s excellent cookbook Duck, Duck, Goose. He calls here, as elsewhere in the book, for a domestic bird, but no one writes better about hunting for the table and cooking wild meat, and throughout he offers advice about cooking particular wild ducks and geese.]

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