Jamie Oliver

Advantages: Easy to use, home made sauces, no mess, healthy
Disadvantages: None

...We all know and love Jamie Oliver, the award winning Naked Chef, star of Jamie's school dinners and successful restaurants, books and cookery programmes. I am going to review today his Flavour Shaker. If you are not familiar with the Jaime Flavour Shaker it is actually one of his inventions. He modelled it on the process of a traditional pestle and mortar. A pestle and mortar grind ingredients together to make a nice paste or marinade but it a very ...
...strength and makes a lot of mess. The flavour shaker looks quite like a salt and pepper shaker and allows you to put in lots of different ingredients, shake it up with the help of a ceramic ball, and then turns it into a sauce. It has a lid on the top so no mess. My husband and I received one of these for a wedding present last year and have been using it all the time since. I like the fact that I can add my own fresh ingredients and that I am guaranteed ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant, innovative, easy yet tasty recipes
Disadvantages: Has a tendency to make you get fat!

...Hurrah for Jamie Oliver! He posesses an old head set on young shoulders. His mature, grown-up food, coupled with his juvenile catchphrases and energetic, almost childlike love for his ingredients endears him to all ages and causes his enthusiasm for food and cooking to become totally infectious. I find it refreshing to find someone with an honest passion for food that encompasses ingredients, cooking methods and the actual consuming of the finished product. It is obvious that he knows his food from shopping to table, giving as many tips on how to buy as he does on how to eat. He makes shopping fun, cooking fun and eating fun and strips bare the mystery and secrets that have for so long been nurtured by those in "the know" and emits an enthusiasm that challenges everyone to not only cook his recipes but to try things for themselves. I... Read review

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Advantages: A broad range of Italian dishes from street food to fine quisine
Disadvantages: Occasional dishes that don't work without specific ingredients

...This book is fantastic - not only a recipe book but also a vibrant an well informed critique of Italian living. If you're not passionate about Italian cooking, you soon will be! The book is broken down into sections, basically representing the courses of an authentic italian meal. Jamies Italy is not written for the occasional cook, it assumes you are well informed and know where to find the right ingredients. There are plently of simple recipies with ingredients that are easy to come by, others however require larger/more expensive cuts of meat or particular ingredients. To me the book is an inspiration. One of the points this book really gets over, without really meaning to is the importance of seasonal ingredients. Italians rarely import food and so rely on seasonal produce. Never serve an Italian food thats our of season... Read review

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Advantages: Variety of recipes
Disadvantages: None

...This book was published in 2005 and i had it given as a birthday gift a couple of months ago. As I love italian food,cooking and Jamie Oliver it was the perfect gift for me. The retail price is £20.00 and in my opinion it is his best recipe book yet. This book gives a great collection of Italian recipes and shares some of Jamie`s experiences whilst he travelled around the country, working and eating off the beaten track. It contains food of the "real" Italy and many recipes from people he met on his travels. The introduction covers 8 pages and then there are seven sections covering: starters street food and pizza first courses salads main courses side dishes desserts There are 120 brand new recipes structured like a traditional trattoria menu. I spent ages just reading this book , in fact if you don`t actually make any... Read review

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