Great hosts have great tricks. For a crowd, a spiral-sliced ham, served with homemade biscuits and a tart chutney, never ...

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 ...

With the right technique and simple accompaniments, duck is easy to get right. Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik Duck may seem like something you'd order at a fancy French bistro, but with these simple ...

Cooking fish and game at home has long been a smart way for homesteaders to stretch the grocery budget while putting ...

Contributor Stephanie Burt has shelves of community cookbooks, those spiral-bound snapshots of the collected recipes from a church group, Junior League or another social organization. They hold a lot ...

Prunes that have soaked in Armagnac for six months, minimum. The blood of a freshly killed hare. Nine pounds of fresh fava beans, husked and peeled. A 6-inch-thick bed of pine needles. One dish alone ...

This is one of my favorite recipes to cook for a large crowd. It's great for sharing; just set it up in the middle of the table, carve and let everyone help themselves. The traditional Peking duck is ...

The duck is carved similarly to a turkey and served alongside all of the traditional Thanksgiving sides. Derry said she doesn’t have a specific recipe, but for one recent holiday meal, she tried to ...

As the old saying goes, all good things must come to end. Jan. 31 marks the end of duck season in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. Duck hunters across the region will be cleaning and packing up ...

Sebastien Archambault wants everyone to love duck. “There are so many ways to prepare duck. It is so versatile,” says Archambault, 43, over a double espresso after lunch service on a recent Friday at ...