Goose is all dark meat, with an intense flavor more often compared to beef than chicken.

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The wild birds are smaller, firmer, and have a rich, intense flavor since they are mostly dark meat.

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You can use breast meat, but the more flavorful dark meat will do better justice to your secret sauce.

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Dark meat embodies all the menace of dissolution into the nothingness that is the slimy ground of being itself!

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The breast meat can be taken out of the oven before the dark meat so it is not overcooked, and the lower oven temperature will keep the meat juicy.

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The Mexicans contended that farm subsidies north of the border, plus a surplus of "dark meat" chicken pieces resulting from affluent America's preference for breast cuts, threatened them with ruin.

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The filetto di puledro is a new one on me, but its rich, ferrous, dark red meat is tantalisingly familiar.

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"It's like a cross between dark-meat turkey and pork, " said Mark Scarbrough, co-author of the cookbook "Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese, " which came out last year.

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To me it captures the spirit of the California cabernet style that put Napa on the map: it is big, dark, rich and fruity, the kind of wine that goes great with red meat, but in the case of Caymus, it is so delicious and so well structured it is equally good on its own.

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Then peek at the center of the flakes: Unlike the exterior of the meat, which becomes milky and opaque as it cooks, the interior should remain dark pink.

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