Braised Duck with Leeks and Onions

When Southerners speak of duck, they’re talking about wild ducks, and more specifically, about the green-headed, grain-eating mallards that migrate south from Canada each year searching for warmer waters and for feeding grounds. I had lots of exposure to early-morning duck hunting when I was growing up in the Carolinas, but never have I witnessed such passion over the meaty birds and such communal sport than around the marshy flatlands of western Mississippi and the rice fields of eastern A