Jamie Does...

I bought this book solely on the basis of the Marrakesh episode - I have tried several recipes but I already feel I have my money's worth, with the snakey cakey recipe alone! its fantastic - although not quite as easy as Jamie makes it look! My advice would be to make the snake quite thin, especially at one end which will be the centre of the pin-wheel, keep it well buttered and work super fast. But even a few cracks won't matter - mine was delicious and impressive-looking. Lamb tangia is lovely, as is beef tagine. I will be trying more this weekend, plus tomato risotto and tiramisu from this week's Italian episode. Can't wait.

some great tasters to remind us of our holidays (3/4 people found this helpful)

I really like Jamie's recipes but don't love them as they are sometimes a bit too 'bistroish'; not that that is altogether a bad style and they are perfect for many occasions.
This book is typical Jamie but I especially like it because you get so many tasters of the various areas without having to go and buy a specific cookery book of that region. I have only tried a few of the recipes and they work very well, are fairly straightforward and are delicious; the tagine and the stoufado. I'm planning on the paella next.
As usual it has excellent and attractive illustrations and it is written in his chatty, down to earth and humorous tone. Obviously it is padded out but as always, it is about much more than the recipes themselves.
I really like it and I'm buying another for my friend who is just learning tocook.

OK, but not his best (9/14 people found this helpful)

Let's start with me saying that I like Jamie Oliver, and with the exception of Ministry of Food I highly rate his books.

My initial feeling this with this one it that it is style over substance. Highly accessible recipes as always, and fantastic photography, but if you stripped out the many, many double page photos and just kept it down to the recipes you'd end up with a much shorter book. It feels a little flabby with quite a lot of filler pages that don't really add anything.

The recipes themselves seem a little basic, although maybe that's more a reflection of my confidence in the kitchen rather than the book itself.

So overall, it feels like a much larger version of Jamie's self-titled magazine, with the occassional little gem of a recipe buried in amongst a lot of photos and "chat" that doesn't add much.

For me, his best two books remain "How to Cook" from the "Fifteen" series, and Jamie At Home.

If you're a Jamie fan, you'll enjoy this (in parts)... if you're new to his books, this isn't the place to start as you really won't get a good introduction to his work.

jamie does is fab (1/4 people found this helpful)

i brought this book and tried a few recipes out for a bbq and they went down like a storm. the meatballs in the sweden section are fantastic and so was the greek salad. this is a must for all jamie oliver fans and fans of cusine from other countries

he does, does he? (8/17 people found this helpful)

This was purchased for me in error by a character from an unpublished Dickens novel, after I expressed an interest in Jamie Oliver's many experiments in deer husbandry. It is well-known among the antler community (the antlunity) that the best female deer are Jamie does.

However, there are many strings to Jamie's bow, by Osiris! In this book, perhaps wisely, he sticks to his original field of expertise, the food. Despite his unfortunate accident, which has seen him unable to enthuse without his moped somewhere close at hand, this collection of go-go-gourmet whizzery is something to behold.

Indeed, when I received it, although 60% of my body was still encased in ice, I was led down a path of eating, flanked on either side by dense woods of travel and cockney. At times the path is challenging (and slippery), and I have been tempted to run. But my fortitude has been rewarded by a gazpacho wherein tomato, pepper and garlic flirt unctuously with cucumber, the eternal bachelor of the vegetable kingdom; and a tagine so tasty that it must be restrained (with couscous-cuffs). All in all, yes.

Jamie Oliver

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