Orange five-spice roast goose and potatoes. Have more glorious words ever been spoken in the English language? Goose isn’t a bird you see all that often on tables in the United States — except around ...

The holiday season is here and it's time to select a showstopping Christmas roast to make for the big day. From prime rib ...

My family started roasting a Christmas goose a few years ago for lack of any other Yuletide food tradition. On Thanksgiving, it’s turkey. On Hanukkah, latkes. On New Year’s, chocolate mousse. But when ...

This Christmas, our friend, chef Bobby Flay, may have bitten off more than he can chew: What to cook for Christmas dinner has always been a quandary for me. It's a handful of weeks after the most ...

The Christmas meal is both immutable and open to adaptation. There are no rules about a first course on December 25 – a ...

If someone says they're serving goose for Christmas, you’d probably consider it an elaborate meal. Nowadays meats like turkey or ham are far more common at the Christmas table, so the presence of ...

Goose was so important in the Victorian-era that people would save — and save — for the big day, often joining the equivalent of modern-day Christmas club accounts to afford a plump, juicy bird. And ...

In the past, some very strange things were eaten around Christmas. At lavish Christmas feasts in the Middle Ages, swans and peacocks were sometimes served "adorned." The flesh was painted with saffron ...

“There never was such a goose. … Its tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for ...

On the eve of this most challenging of Christmases, when there is so much loss, so much suffering, and so much uncertainty in all of our lives, I find myself remembering the Christmas when I had just ...

Cormac MacConnell recalls a Christmas gathering and memories of his youth. As the old year was tottering towards its close, I was having a mighty night in the great singing pub Cooper's in Birdhill in ...

If someone says they're serving goose for Christmas, you’d probably consider it an elaborate meal. Nowadays meats like turkey or ham are far more common at the Christmas table, so the presence of ...