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  1. Karen cooks like my father, who was Cypriot and a chef/restauranteur, which is to say she's imposing standard Western restaurant cooking onto Mediterranean cuisine. My dad learned to cook at catering college in the UK, not from his mum, and spent 30 years in a French-food environment before returning to his roots. So I learned from him to be liberal with the salt (I should note, though, Karen, that he had several heart attacks in later life!!), to brown the garlic before adding the onions (or here, bizarrely, the celery and carrot before the onions) and many more inauthentic things. Of course, it wasn't until I moved to Greece in the Eighties, got married and watched my mother-in-law at work in the kitchen, that I realized how inauthentic his cooking was… Anyway, one last thing, when my mother-in-law or any of her numerous sisters made a dish with even a tad too much salt (i.e. around a tenth of the amount Karen used here, or less!), she would damn her cooking by calling it 'tasty', which–in the end–is something restaurant food tries to be. Proper home-cooked food strives to be authentic, healthy, welcoming and a whole lot more.

  2. This dish looks amazing. But as a Persian, I was shocked by how she used all those beautiful threads of Saffron! You can easily use a tenth of what is advised in this recipe. Bloom it properly (ie grinding saffron and brew it for a few minutes) and poor it on your risotto shortly before it is done.

  3. The entire point of osso buco, as its name suggests, is to have bone barrow braised with the meat, which is why lamb is not common for osso buco (it's meant to be veal). So, this isn't osso buco, it's just a lamb stew.

  4. Same energy as Giada but with the added bonus of badass energy. Probably be pretty cool to have a couple drinks and a good conversation with Karen…
    Edited to add that you're all kinds of welcome to cook for my wife, my son and myself anytime……as long as you let us reciprocate 😛

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