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An impressively creamy risotto that is super-easy and quick to make. ■ Serves 4 ■ Prep 15 mins plus resting ■ Cook 35 mins 30g butter4 garlic cloves, crushed2 shallots, finely chopped300g arborio rice

A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p

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