Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life - Jamie Oliver

I bought the Jamie At Home cookery book because I enjoyed the TV series and it was reduced to £15 in WHSmiths, with an RRP of £25 that was a good saving I think on a book that has had a lot of use in the six months or so since I bought it. Jamie Oliver has come in for a lot of stick since he tried to overhaul school dinners but I think he makes a lot of sense in what he says and he comes up with some lovely recipes so I can justify buying his books. Jamie At Home is a great collection of recipes which are easy to follow and use ingredients I usually have already in the cupboards. I've tried probably 50% of the 100 or so recipes in the book and all have turned ...  Read the complete review

Now I’m sure that majority of you reading this review, have a Jamie Oliver cook book at home somewhere. I have to confess that I’ve got all his cookbooks, his biography and his wife Jools’ book about pregnancy too. I’ve also met him too, I’m not obsessed with him, I just like his style of cooking, his recipes and he is a similar age to me. Yes he’s good looking, but come on; compare him to other celebrity cooks such as Gordon Ramsey, Antony Worrall Thompson and Gary Rhodes. I’d choose Jamie every time. Jamie Oliver ```````````````` Jamie grew up surrounded by food in his parent’s pub in Essex, from the age of eight, he started helping out in the ...  Read the complete review

I was give this book for Christmas last year, and I must say it has inspired me cook more than ever. The book is split into four main categories: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. These categories are further subdivided into vegetables, meats or dairy products, favoured by the seasonal changes and gives around 3 to 5 recipes for each of them, as listed below: Spring - asparagus, eggs, lamb and rhubarb Summer - barbecue, cabbage family, carrots and beets, climbing beans, courgettes, onions, peans and broadbeans, pizza, potatoes, strawberries, summer salads and tomatoes Autumn - chillies and peppers, feathered game, furred game, mushrooms, ...  Read the complete review

I received this book as a present and really love it. I love the retro cover and the photos inside are beautiful. Jamie follows the seasons, explaining what to eat when. Within each season there is a section on a particular ingredient, such as asparagus, broad beans, rhubarb, lamb, etc. He provides a few recipes for each ingredient, e.g. asparagus soup, tart, grilled, steamed, served with fish... With the vegetables he also devotes a couple of pages each to growing them (although that's not really my thing). There's also sections on bbqing, pizza, pickles, pastry...it's really quite comprehensive. There's also a wide range of flavours as Jamie ...  Read the complete review

Having been a fan of Jamie Oliver for quite some time now, even back in the "pukka" days...(!), I felt like I had to buy this book of his just to be loyal. I had seen the programme and thought it was an interesting way to portray the processes that he goes through before cookery and thought, well why not, it may inspire me to grow my own veg before cooking. The book itself has a really nice rustic sort of feel to it, the texture used feels more like material than paper and that's nice because it makes it feel really earthy yet unique on your bookshelf. The presentation inside is also really nice and rustic, at times it has a scrapbook ...  Read the complete review