Mirepoix / Soffrito / Sofrito X / Battuto

A chippy deli owner who was also an unbelievably self-important daytime telly chef once berated Keith Floyd for starting most dishes with a mixture of onions, garlic and so on: he seemed, astonishingly, to believe this had something to do with Keith having been educated at a public school. This ignorant poot might as well have chided every cook in southern Europe, the over