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 ...

People have disrespected geese for decades with names like “sky rats” or worse, convinced that this species is unfit for consumption. When I started hunting, I heard people say geese were inedible and ...