Cooking a bird heart can be really simple: Sear quickly in bacon grease or duck butter with a little bit of freshly cracked black pepper. Generally speaking, similar to venison heart, wild bird hearts ...

Although turkey is no longer a once-a-year meal, preparing the Thanksgiving bird is still an annual event for many cooks. Those same cooks forget from year to year the most basic techniques of ...

Prick the bird with a small knife in several places, especially where you can feel fat deposits. Roast the duck on a rack, breast-side up, until the skin is well browned and crisp, about 1 hour ...

Pity the cook at a backyard barbecue. While a rowdy game of volleyball takes shape on one end of the lawn, and a gaggle of children plays tag on the other, the cook remains inextricably tied to ...

This is the first Thanksgiving since the U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its recommended minimum internal temperature for cooking poultry. After years of advocating an internal cooking ...

Big Daddy's, Massapequa. THE PLACE Popular -- and freewheeling -- Southern-Cajun-BBQ restaurant. THE BIRD From chef Craig Bedell comes a "traditional BBQ turducken" -- a chicken stuffed in a duck ...