podesta-risotto

Unfortunately, this is not from The Onion.

Via Daily Caller.

The most interesting thing in WikiLeaks’ massive dump of John Podesta emails is his risotto recipe. At least, that’s the conclusion of Vox.com, which has written an article about it while otherwise almost completely ignoring the leak.

Vox says there is “nothing outright scandalous” in the trove of over 5,000 emails, despite evidence of a Vice President Joe Biden backstab, media collusion with the campaign, and severe ridicule directed at devout Catholics. So, instead of writing about any of those things, Vox published a piece on an email which reveals Podesta’s personal recipe for risotto….

But this is no puff piece. Crockett notes that Podesta’s technique is of dubious value.

“It should be noted that Podesta’s ‘slower add process’ risotto technique does not come without its share of controversy,” he says. “Food science writer J. Kenji López-Alt has debunked this in the past: By cooking rice in a wider, shallower skillet, he claims, you can ‘get perfect results by adding the rice and almost all of the liquid at once.’”….

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  1. Alain41 says:

    Vox’s encouragement to eat risotto implies that there is no cultural appropriation when it comes to food. In that case, I’ll have the taco bowl.

  2. Rob_W says:

    “Let them eat cake.” (Or, in this case, “Let them eat risotto.”)

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