Advantages: Real knowledge and authentic ingredients and receipes Disadvantages: NONE
This book IS a true celebration of Italy. I had just returned from a dream vacation in Europe and was fortunate to visit Venice, Florence and Rome. When I returned I wanted to enhance my own cooking with more Italian receipes and could not get the falling in love part of Italy that I wanted to have my cooking focus to reflect. Sure enough, in the back of the shelf was one book left of JamieOliver's Italy. I noticed it because of the cover and the beautiful colors of the book. It was authentic Italy. I had only been home from my trip one week and reallyw as missing the environment and the richness and the inspiration. Picking up this book I felt I was there and I felt that Jamie captured the falling in love with Italy and easily gave receipes the history, richness and how to do it yourself with such ease. I read almost the whole book in ...
Advantages: Likeable lad Disadvantages: Pseudo working - class thing
I'm back in love with JamieOliver! We kind of fell out over 'Jamie's Ministry of Food', the TV series tackling obesity in Rotherham, mostly spent patronising fat working-class people in a Northern town because they preferred their chips over tapas, a rather cheap shot from Britain's favourite chef. I'm sure he didn't mean it that way but the people that put the show together probably did.
The whole exercise, at the time, seemed less about helping the people of Britain's fattest city lose weight through healthy eating but more about selling copies of his preceding recipe book for fat people from northern towns. It was a good idea in practice, teaching a small group of people how to cook healthier recipes and then pass it on to more people and hope it balloons up to impressive numbers of healthy eaters across the country. But once ...
thedevilinme 18.11.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Jamie Oliver
Advantages: Beautifully presented book with some great recipes Disadvantages: Recipies can be complicated and costly
I was bought this as a Birthday present and although I'm not JamieOlivers biggest fan, I was really pleased to receive it.
Being born to Italian parents, food was always a very important part of our everyday life. I still remember my Gran making "topini" - fresh gnocchi, which melted in the mouth. To this day I've not tasted anything like them again.
Some of the recipies in this book remind me of my childhood. Although I'm quite disappointed that he didn't include Crostini alla Fiorentina, made with chicken livers. He did include Panzanella, a Tuscan salad, made with bread and tomatoes. Used to be my Dads favourite, although the rest of us always tended to disagree.
The book is divided into the following chapters:-
Antipasti - Starters
Street Food & Pizza
Primi - First Courses
Insalate - Salads
Secondi - Main ...
