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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