Because truly great-tasting food that impossibly sweet tomato, the deeply flavored leg of lamb by definition has the right environment behind it.

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My grandfather could remember only one encounter with Luka, during a winter storm when Mother Vera had sent him out to buy a leg of lamb.

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Langer, resuming on 34, could have gone early on but Greg Lamb's throw from square leg narrowly missed the stumps with the Australian well out of his ground.

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The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.

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