11.   The recipe here, for weeknight duck, takes less than an hour and results in a crisp bird from which nearly all the fat has been rendered.

12.   The sidewalks are searing enough to render chicken fat and humidity hangs like napalm in the afternoon air.

13.   The trick with grilling duck is to render the fat from the skin over a medium-low fire.

14.   They give body to meat sauces, form the base for stuffings and, rich as they are, can render fat for sauteing.

15.   When all fat is rendered, remaining skin will be a thin, caramelized, very dark crackling.

16.   When most fat is rendered and bacon is brown, drain off fat and return pan and bacon to heat.

17.   When it comes to roasting a duck, there is no better method of rendering the fat than a long and lazy roast.

18.   He later cooked the strips on a stove at home to render the fat into liquid, Ritter told Judge Gerry Allbright.