"estella" wrote in message
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Many of the recipes for risotto do not include cheese, just meat,
seafood
or vegetables.

Interesting. When I hear "risotto" I think of something akin to chinese
fried rice, i.e., rice fried in a pan with vegetables and maybe meat or
egg. I've never made a creamy or cheesy risotto before.

Risotto is an Italian word for an Italian dish with rice.
The most famous risotto is, I think, Risotto Milanese, with saffron
and meat (and cheese, of course).

I certainly once had the most heavenly parmesan risotto in Florence
overlooking the Duomo.
Rachael