How To Cook a Goose ...

A great communal cocktail, a book, a movie and other lessons from a festive holiday season.

What to cook for a small dinner party as 2023 turns to 2024 and a new year begins?

“How about a goose?” said Ann.

A topping idea! I hadn’t cooked a goose, mine or anyone else’s, in years, so it was time. Regrettably we would be cooking a goose, our supplier, D’Artagnan, explained, during a goose shortage, so it would be twice—twice!—what it normally cost …