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 ...

Though roasting a whole duck may sound fancy or intimidating, it's really the same concept as cooking a chicken. Just season the bird thoroughly and give it plenty of time in the oven to develop a ...

Ever since we left Beijing to come back to the U.S., one of the things we really miss is the abundance and variety of authentic food China has to offer. Take Peking duck, for example. Whole ducks are ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...