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BOW, Skagit County — The French word gigot translates to a leg of lamb, a revelation that amused a live Bellingham radio audience at a February event featuring Washington poet and sheep farmer Jessica Gigot.

In France, gigot d’agneau — leg of lamb — is, well, de rigueur for a proper Easter meal.

If not, here’s a popular Gallic choice: gigot d’agneau, leg of lamb.

However, as I do about the most wonderful gigot d'agneau I have ever eaten in France one summer, I always think about and talk about her paella.

I’m sure she didn’t want to make that gigot.”