Cookbook Quote by Anthony Bourdain

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier.

— Lidia Bastianich

Julia Child came to my house and wanted a lesson in making risotto.

— Lidia Bastianich

Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.

— Lidia Bastianich

The guy that taught me how to cook risotto lives right down the street and I see him all the time. I go to…

— John Wilson

My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the…

— Cote de Pablo

Unlike leftover pasta, leftover risotto is viewed by Italians as a gift. Cooks shape it into balls or stuff it with a pinch of…

— Samin Nosrat

I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The slow cooker has a tremendous breadth of uses. I find it supplements regular kitchen equipment, and stands in for things that you might…

— Michele Scicolone

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook…

— Steve Albini

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon…

— John Green