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Grilled Bone-In Leg of Lamb

THE GRILLING AREA at our Boston test kitchen sits next to a cruise ship terminal. This means that any test cook who grills on a Friday has a crowd of spectators eager to watch while they wait to set sail. It can be fun to have an audience when you’re expertly searing a thick-cut steak. Or it can mean that there are hundreds of people to bear witness when a beautiful 8-pound leg of lamb gets enveloped in menacing flames from the grill. I should know. It happened to me.

I’d been thrilled to be assigned the task of developing a recipe for grilled leg of lamb. I love lamb’s meaty, mildly gamy flavor,

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