Not many stews or casseroles make it to restaurant menus. You may find coq au vin or beef bourguignon in a French restaurant or lamb shanks with mash may turn up at the local pub, but as a general rule, slow cooked meat dishes lie in the domain of the home cook, of hearty – yet delicious – comfort food. Osso buco is another exception to the rule. For osso buco is more than the sum of its parts.
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