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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 ...

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