Lobster and Scampi Risotto

In Northern Italy especially, risotto is a very popular dish and at the first opportunity I ordered one in a restaurant near Milan. What a disappointment it turned out to be. The bowl of slightly sour, undercooked goo covered with congealed grated cheese tasted like half-cooked birdseed – a one-off mistake, I decided. The next day at lunch somewhere in Piedmont, I tried the speciality della casa – risotto with three cheeses. In what appeared to be an elegant, long established, frightfully m