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Summary: Every day good-food-cooking day
Review: I got this book as a Santa gift, and started by buying all the recommended 'standard ingredients' listed in the first chapter, including various types of beans, oils and mustards. I have prepared delicious North-African lamb stew, roasted chicken, and fantastic salad. The book gives you the opportunity to try something new every day. The use of new types of spices adds new variety to my cooking. My wife likes the food so much she wants to buy me the second book as well. It's a great book, and we always look forward to 'eat Jamiefood'.
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Summary: Top food, easy recipes, great tastes
Review: This is a book I buy for friends who say 'oh cooking is just so hard... cookbooks are too hard to read...'. Certainly not. This is a cookbook which is fun and original, for cooks and non-cooks alike. Jamie's recipes combine simple tastes with inventive twists, turning plain-olds into exciting and new things.I recommend this book to those who are bored with their normal cookbooks and who are looking to spice up the repertoire. Fortunately, Jamie's recipes leave much room for improvisation, so we can change them as much as we like, with no worries. A word of warning to American readers, though - some of the vernacular might be comfusing at best, and incomprehensible, at worst. Not to worry, though, the important stuff is all in plain English. And be sure, too, to have a good conversion chart for cups to grams and suchlike.
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Summary: Fusion Food
Review: Cooking books should be fund to read and make cooking enjoyable. This book is the companion piece to the first television series. The author is a good on TV and the recipes are generally good. What I personally enjoyed was the extended section on pasta. It suggests that you should make your own pasta as it is possible to develop a greater flavor range than commercial varieties. The techniques are well explained and easy to follow. From the point of view of the American marked one section which will probably be seen as not quite that interesting is a long section on lamb. It would seem that lamb has a limited penetration of the American market. Still the book is easy to read all of the recipes work except the lamb shanks one. The critical question with a cook book is will you look forward to using it and does it make your food better. The answer with this book is yes.
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Summary: Good recipes, enthusiasm and style
Review: Read his book. Seen his show. Enjoyed both. The book is great for ideas. Experienced cooks may find it too basic or, pardon the pun, too bare. The focus isn't on aesthetically pleasing presentation but on taste and relative ease of cooking. Ingredients are easy to locate. Mr. Oliver instills the reader with a "you can cook this" attitude which for those cooks, beginner and otherwise, who lack confidence in trying something new, is encouraging. He has a unique way of looking, cooking and writing. It is all of this that catches our attention.
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Summary: Great book - the boy's a genius!
Review: This is the best cook book i have ever come accross.The recipes are easy to follow and the manor with which Jamie guides you is just as though he's talking to you in person.It gave me great confidence to experiment.I also heard that he has been in a band for 13 years,and that the "Scarlet division" debut single - "Sundial" is available here on Amazon too.And it's great!check it out,and you too can have an all round Jamie Oliver experience.COOL.
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Summary: Love the show, love the food-- love the chef!
Review: Young Jamie Oliver makes the mysteries of the kitchen entertaining practical, accessible, and fun (just like the chef himself!). I love to throw dinner parties, for colleagues, students and friends, and Jamie's recipes are simple, tasty and easy to prepare.
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Summary: Fantastic cookbook...
Review: The caption above this review sums it up fairly well. Simply put, this is a terrific addition to your cookbook library. Why? Well, in a few main points, because: Easy, very accessible recipes. Practicality is the cornerstone of much of Oliver's recipes. You won't find overly difficult or complex recipes here. Very easy-to-do, simple-to-follow approaches. Very easy to find ingredients. At the same time, taste and presentation are not sacrificied either. The recipes are simply delicious. Very important. By comparison, everything that Bittman tried to achieve in the "Minimalist" cookbook is acheived and far surpassed by Oliver. Thoroughly enjoyable text. Oliver is very funny. His humor and wit come across strikingly well. His stories are personal as well. His writing makes for simply enjoyable reading. Quite a bonus when it comes to cookbooks. Very nice graphics and layout. The photographs are beautiful, and the design that went into the publishing of this book is top of the line. Very good. Also a plus, more so for novice chefs (or beginners), is the inclusion of many helpful tips and pointers. Oliver puts in his two-cents worth on what to look for in "staples" or the basics of cooking. Anything from raw ingredients, to cooking utensils. Nice to have and refer to when/should the need strike you. VERY WORTH having this text in your kitchen. You will enjoy it and value it. You and yours will also reap the benefits of this text by way of some outstanding recipes. Enjoy!
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Summary: Much Attitude, Little Content
Review: This cookbook may be appropriate for beginners, but anyone who owns any other cookbooks, especially Italian ones, will be disappointed. The recipes are exceedingly simplistic (handfuls of herbs with everthing) and not unique or inventive in the least. Save your money and look elsewhere.
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Summary: Innovative and SImple cooking
Review: This book is just wonderful. Full of lovely colour photos, interesting things about his life and most of all very easy to follow recipes. From the simplest nibbles to the wonderful salads and meat dishes. The Fresh Tuna recipe is supberb along with his Pasta dishes. His recipes are smimple, straight forward and best of all, all the ingredients are readily available. An excellent coffee table read as well.
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Summary: The ultimate cookbook
Review: Jamie Oliver makes you want to cook .... from his down-to-earth approach to the different and delicious recipies in the book. He makes you feel that you are cooking with him as you he encourages you to take a chance and pickup that frying pan. A must for the experienced or beginner cook.
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