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Jamie Oliver's back with a vengeance with his most accessible book yet. In "Jamie's Dinners" he encourages us to eat more healthily, to really enjoy our time spent cooking and to inspire confidence in even the most novice cook. Basically, it sees Jamie Oliver going back to basics in the kitchen to revolutionise family meals. To start with, he takes a look at how to get the most out of your kitchen without spending too much money on making it work. In ‘Family Tree’ he takes recipes several different ways, giving you confidence whilst at the same time hoping to get you hooked on learning more. He also reveals the world’s most-loved food from a global website survey he conducted: the Top Ten dishes that families love to eat together. With over 100 brand new recipes, this book is all about making cooking inspiring and accessible. This is the perfect cookbook for everybody. |
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Jamie Oliver is setting up a new restaurant, which is also a training school for young chefs. "Jamie's Kitchen" features 100 delicious recipes from his cookery course as well as from the restaurant menu, including the ultimate in Mediterranean-style fast food - pasta and fresh sauces, thick wedges of bruschetta with basil and tomatoes, warm vats of stew for the winter and simple French salads for the summer. The books also examines oriental cuisine - tempting us with dim sum delights such as steamed pork buns - and skirts the borders of increasingly popular Spanish and Middle Eastern flavours with sweet roasted garlic soup and Lebanese lemon chicken respectively. It also includes sections on basic chef skills such as chopping, boning and filleting. |
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Like Jamie Oliver's first two books, "Happy Days with the Naked Chef" (aka. The Naked Chef 3) is filled with fantastic recipes for different occasions. Whether you want healthy food, portable grub, one-pot meals, ideas for cooking for two or with kids, or food that is 'cheap as chips', this book has it all. As well as Jamie's favourite recipes, he looks at 'fridge friends' (lovely snacky things) and 'foody prezzies' - perfect for Christmas and birthday surprises. Using his 'strip it bare then make it work' principle Jamie Oliver creates a foolproof repertoire of simple, feisty and delicious recipes. |
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"The Return of the Naked Chef" (aka. The Naked Chef 2) is a brilliant collection of smart-casual food, that's sophisticated, simple, sharp and bang up to the moment. This is food designed to be cooked in the home, but informed by the skills and commercial instincts of a working chef. It's modern, fresh and not in any way intimidating thanks to Jamie Oliver's intriguing personality - a unique mix of imaginative professional and laddish Essex boy, that altogether forms a highly appealing and skilful package. |
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"The Naked Chef" cookbook reveals the tricks of the trade. Jamie Oliver shows how to make the most of ingredients, how to make two meals out of one, how best to prepare food, and how to quickly create delicious meals that make it look as though you have spent the entire evening in the kitchen! Using ingredients that can be found by almost anyone who is reasonably interested in food shopping, the book focuses on modern Italian food that is simple to prepare, but looks and tastes exquisite. |
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Another helping of the Naked Chef in "Jamie Oliver - The Naked Chef - Vol. 3". |
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It's hard to keep up with Jamie Oliver these days, but one look at this video, "Jamie Oliver - Naked Chef 2", should remind you just why he's everyone's favourite cheeky chappy. Recipes such as Thai Seared Carpaccio, Tray Baked Pork Chops with Thyme and Roasted Pears, Preserved Slow-cooked Baby Bell Chillies Stuffed with Anchovies and Capers, may sound difficult, but he has a knack for making all of these seem manageable for even the most reticent cook. Tedious measuring and weighing take a back seat to tasting and trusting your instincts. It's a cooking style that encourages pleasure in making tasty food for good friends. |
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Unless you've had your head in a plate of pie and mash for the last few years you'll know that Jamie Oliver is "The Naked Chef" - and that the "naked" refers to his style of cooking: fresh, simple, stripped back to basics. In the video "Jamie Oliver - The Naked Chef" the tone is set with roast leg of lamb flavoured with garlic, rosemary, and pancetta and baked fresh fruits (figs, peaches, cherries) with mascarpone and vanilla sugar. His basic recipe for homemade pasta is undauntingly straightforward. Equally simple but inspiring are his fish dishes, including baked salmon fillets with French beans, roasted cherry tomatoes, olives, anchovies and a basil aioli. It's all ever so slightly and deliciously left of a very classic centre. |
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"Pukka Tukka" is Jamie Oliver's latest assault on the nation's taste buds and his recipe for putting the "pukka" back into "tukka", with a blend of common sense and imagination. The "tukka" ranges from spaghettini with baby tomatoes, garlic and basil to a warm salad of chargrilled salmon, courgette and asparagus with a thyme and lemon dressing. After Oliver has trounced the packaged meals for time, price and taste, he takes off on his silver scooter to help three very different people inject a little class into their cooking: a student friend, a fireman and a city trader. If you're a devotee of the hugely successful Naked Chef series (also available on VHS Video and DVD) then "Pukka Tukka" certainly won't disappoint. |
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"Cookin' (Jamie Oliver's Music)" is jam packed with the best in alternative rock and dance, complete with fully annotated sleeve notes from the Naked Chef, explaining his love of each and every track. There is some storming big-beat buffoonery from Fatboy Slim ("Right Here, Right Now") and a classic slice of trip-hop from Sneaker Pimps ("6 Underground"), but the dance end of Jamie's record collection is far outweighed by his love of indie - from fellow Essex boys Blur ("Trouble in the Message Centre") to northern stars Happy Mondays ("Loose Fit") there is more than a decade's worth of tunes on the menu. There is even a late entry from up-and-coming rocksters Scarlet Division ("Sundial") featuring a certain chef on drums. Pukka. |
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At the tender age of 25, Jamie Oliver had become a TV star, written two best-selling books, and had begun to take America by storm. Stafford Hildred and Tim Ewbank have approached Jamie's friends, family and colleagues to produce "Jamie Oliver: the Biography", which aims to show just what makes him tick. |
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