My family started roasting a Christmas goose a few years ago for lack of any other Yuletide food tradition. On Thanksgiving, it’s turkey. On Hanukkah, latkes. On New Year’s, chocolate mousse. But when ...

From ancient times, the fabled Christmas goose has been the traditional go-to festive entree. Even Greeks and Romans, celebrating different festivals, plated the same roasted goose as the centerpiece.

Many people have fond associations of traditional Christmas Goose. So why do so few of us make it? For starters, offers Duck, Duck, Goose author Hank Shaw, geese are expensive. Prepare to spend ...

Geese represent a small part of Mark Anderson’s pastured poultry operation at Champoeg Farm near St. Paul, Ore., which is primarily dedicated to chickens and turkeys. However, Anderson has noticed a ...

There never was such a goose. This line, found in the third chapter of “A Christmas Carol,” greatly contributed to my childhood understanding of a traditional Christmas dinner. Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer ...

On the eve of this most challenging of Christmases, when there is so much loss, so much suffering, and so much uncertainty in all of our lives, I find myself remembering the Christmas when I had just ...

We bought a goose to cook on Christmas Day, my wife and I, from the poultry farm in Hoffenheim, another little German village just over the hill from ours. Effie and I were each other’s company that ...

It was Christmas Day, and I was taking stock of my gifts: a much-needed new food processer, an Andrea Bocelli Christmas CD, a couple of fun baubles and beads, and some Christmas hand towels. (Do you ...

Nov. 17—The annual Christmas Goose event is celebrating its 41st year this weekend at the Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds in Yuba City. The Christmas Goose is an exclusive craft show that is traditionally ...