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"Confit country" is the area of Occitan France [citation needed], where goose fat is used for cooking, as opposed to olive oil, which is used in Provence, where olives were plentiful and thus cheap. [citation needed] Confit country is divided roughly into regions where one type of meat predominates the confit preparations.
[5] [6] [1] [7] One can also simmer pieces of goose submerged in the fat to make confit. In some cuisines geese are raised primarily for lard. [5] According to NPR, goose fat is "the crème de la crème of fats". [3] in 2006 Nigella Lawson called it "the essential Christmas cooking ingredient". [3]
In Germany, roast goose is a staple for Christmas Day meals. [5] For European cultures, roast goose is traditionally [6] eaten only on appointed holidays, including St. Martin's Day. [7] It is generally replaced by the turkey in the United States. Similarly, goose is often an alternative to turkey on European Christmas tables. [citation needed]
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gás and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
In Victorian England, cooking a Christmas goose was a natural option for most people who couldn't afford to butcher a hen or cow for Christmas dinner: Geese only lay eggs in warmer months and ...
He Cooked His Goose is a 1952 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).It is the 140th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
The word for more than one goose is geese, but the word for more than one moose is not meese. (It's still "moose.") Even though his answer was embarrassing, the overwhelming majority of reactions ...
The goose is here to check your ID. Geese are so sweet. Geese are so cute. Geese are so gentle. Nope, that's seriously untrue.