The leek is a vegetable related to the onion and garlic, but with a milder, subtler flavour. It is a great addition to soups and stocks. To prepare, trim off any of the hairy roots which may still be attached and discard the tough outer leaves. If using whole, cut half way down the length from the top and swill in cold water. Otherwise, slice diagonally.
Leek chives. As you might imagine, these are smaller than a leek, larger than a chive, and have a distinct, onion-suggestive flavour but not as fierce.
Beef cut. Leg comes from the back legs. When cooked, the marbling gives it a characteristically rich, tasty, gelatinous quality. It is excellent for stews and casseroles, beef tea and stock.
A blight-resistant bush-borne variety of red beefsteak tomato which received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit in 2003. Fruits weigh around 225g (8 oz) on average. The bushes are untidy but the fruits have great flavour.
Leghorn is the anglicised name for Livorno, a province and town of Tuscany, a region in north western Italy, where Shelley drowned.
A breed of hen which was originally shipped from Livorno, hence its name. The many varieties of this breed of hen have long been valued by both the show fancier and the commercial egg-producer world-wide. They are prolific layers of large, white eggs. Both the cock and the hen are white with red wattles.
A name for the top rib of beef, no-one knows why. More commonly referred to as LMC.
