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Article: profile: Delia Smith: First, find a market
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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LAST week, Britain's favourite cook showed her millions of
viewers how to cook a risotto in the oven. She'd always loved
risotto, Delia explained, but it seemed unfair that anyone cooking
it had to stand over the pan "and couldn't enjoy a pre-supper drink
. . . Then one day, when I was making rice pudding, I thought 'why
shouldn't you make risotto in the oven?' So I tried it and here it
is."
It was a classic Delia moment: the homely explanation, the cool
determination to demystify and de-snob the process of preparing
decent food, the ready acknowledgement that cooks have other things
to do than measure wine into rice all evening.
It was also misleading. Three years ago Delia confessed her ...