Aladdin's Lamb

Aladdin's LambIt may come as something of a surprise to the great mass of Americans whose sole culinary contact with genus Ovis consists of lamb stew and lamb chops, that there is no meat more steeped in ancient lore or more delectably adaptable to exotic variations. Near Eastern wise men have lionized lamb for several millennia. So avid were these ancients in their appreciation of lamb that a Samaritan prophet had to rebuke his people for eating too much of it. Not so today. From the windswept...