I make risotto quite a lot (come round for dinner sometime!), and as such almost never order it in restaurants, because I reckon I can make it at least as well as them (see comment above about it being fiddly to make and wanting to be eaten when it's ready), so I prefer to order something I can't/don't make at home, or what's the point in going to restaurants? So I'm quite prepared to believe all the restaurants around here make bad risotto.
I've had risotto in Italy, and it was similar to mine, but the one I remember (I may have had others, but I've forgotten) was squid ink risotto, which is a slightly different kind of animal to, say, mushroom risotto, so it's hard to properly compare. In any case, it didn't make me think I'd been making the wrong thing all these years ;-)
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Date: 2007-05-18 07:13 am (UTC)I've had risotto in Italy, and it was similar to mine, but the one I remember (I may have had others, but I've forgotten) was squid ink risotto, which is a slightly different kind of animal to, say, mushroom risotto, so it's hard to properly compare. In any case, it didn't make me think I'd been making the wrong thing all these years ;-)