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A young sheep, generally between 5 to 12 months of age. Lamb meat is lean with a distinctive flavor....

The meat from a young sheep, generally under one year old. Also called "lamb" or "genuine lamb." Spring lamb is usually marketed at a weight ranging from 20 to 40 pounds.

A term customarily applied to the meat of a pig that is under a year old. The pig carcass is generally split into two sides of pork; each consisting of four primal cuts known as the shoulder, loin, leg/ham, and side/belly.

1. The cuts of meat obtained from the rib cages of beef, veal, lamb, and pork. Back ribs are cut from the beef rib primal and short ribs are cut from the chuck and plate.

A whole rib roast, or "rack of lamb" has seven or eight ribs. It is very tender and flavorful, but it is also one of the most expensive cuts of lamb.

Refers to the smaller cuts of meat obtained from the larger primal cuts of an animal. For example, a beef chuck primal cut can be divided into the arm section and the blade section and from these sub-primals are cut the smaller market ready roasts and steaks.

The smaller primary cuts of meat, taken from the carcass or sides of beef, pork, veal, or lamb, describing the anatomical location from where the cut originated.

The primal cut of an animal that contains the most tender and the leanest sub-primal and market ready cuts.

A cut of meat from the lower end of the legs. This is a lean, tough, but very flavorful and economical cut of lamb, which becomes tender and succulent when properly prepared, using moist heat and long, slow cooking.

Although a lamb has four legs, only the two hind legs produce the cut referred to as "leg of lamb". It is a large, lean, and tender cut and can be used whole or subdivided into smaller cuts, which can are usually cooked using dry heat methods, such as roasting.

A salad green that has small dark green, velvety leaves with a rich, sweet flavor, similar to hazelnut.

A type of hot sandwich consisting of thin slices of tender roast beef layered on a French baguette and served with the flavorful beef sauce known as au jus (pronounced oh zhoo'), which is French for “with juice” (au jus typically accompanies prime rib).

A lamb leg steak comes from the center of the leg. It is identifiable by the crosscut section of round leg bone within the meat.

A chop from the sirloin end of the leg of lamb. It is identifiable by the crosscut section of round leg bone within the meat.

A rib chop is, with the loin chop, the most highly prized, the most tender, and tastiest cut of lamb.

Loin chops, which are crosswise slices from the loin roast, are the leanest, tenderest, and most expensive of the various lamb chops.

Any cut of meat taken from the foreleg of beef, lamb, pork, buffalo, or veal. Shank cuts include the pork ham hocks, which are sometimes referred to as the hock end or the ankle region on an animal.

A thin, boneless cut of meat which is very tender and generally considered to be small in size. Cutlets typically refer to cuts of meat from poultry, lamb, veal, or pork, however, the term may also refer to a thin and flat crouquette consisting of chopped meat or fish and formed into the shape of a cutlet.

Shortened in length, the term Burger is used to describe a popular sandwich made from ground meats that are formed into a patty, cooked, and placed between two halves of a bun.

A long, cylindrical, boneless cut of meat, obtained from the loin primal, in beef, pork, veal, and lamb.