Wild goose recipes get a bad rap. Goose meat is “often, yet unfairly, maligned,” as my friend Mark Norquist of Modern Carnivore likes to say. Or there’s the joke, “How to properly cook a goose,” which ...

While it won’t look like a bird in a Norman Rockwell painting, Levy said some chefs cook the goose until the breast reaches about 140 degrees, then remove the breast and return the legs and thighs to ...