Jamie and his magic pork

Advantages: Likeable lad
Disadvantages: Pseudo working - class thing

...I'm back in love with Jamie Oliver! 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 · Read review
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Review of Jamie Oliver

Jamie's Dinners

Advantages: Great recipes, photos of the food, lots of choice
Disadvantages: None

...We seem to have a liking for Jamie Oliver in our house because this is another cookbook from his series that we have and one that we use pretty much all the time. The book is called Jamie's Dinners and it is billed as the essential family cookbook. It was published in 2004 by the Penguin Group and follows his series that was shown on Channel 4. The book has a photo of Jamie on the front looking rather pensive I think. (Maybe he is thinking about all the money he is making with his little empire!) The book is £14.99 but I believe you can now get it cheaper in a lot of places as it is a few years old. Jamie describes the book as this: I'm really proud of this book because it's full of recipes for great family dinners, and I want to get you all cooking and enjoying them together. As a taster, we've created some menus based around...

Spottydog11 21.07.2008 · Read review
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Cook with Jamie

Advantages: Great, clear, easy concise book, great photos, 140 recipes
Disadvantages: None

...Cook with Jamie 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. Well, actually from some of the comments I've read about him on this site before, we don't all love him, I think it's a case of love or hate, but aside from that he does produce some amazing cook books. The one I am reviewing is called Cook with Jamie and it is a hardbound book, published in 2006 by the Penguin Group. It is quite a plain book with a photo of him on the front holding a cooking knife and surrounded by a photo negative all around the outside. He calls the book, "My guide to making you a better cook." In my opinion he is correct. The thing I love about this book is that it is very simple to follow and allows you to produce some gorgeous meals...

Spottydog11 17.07.2008 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Shaking it up in the kitchen with Jamie Oliver

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

...The Jaime Oliver Flavour Shaker 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 labour intensive way of mixing, requires quite a bit of 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...

Spottydog11 14.05.2008 · Read review
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Jamie Carragher - A True Liverpool Legend

Advantages: A great insight into a true legend
Disadvantages: He plays for Liverpool (only joking)

...Before I start this review in earnest let's get one or two things straight. As you can tell from my user name I am not, never have been and never will be a supporter of Liverpool Football Club. I am a died in the wool Manchester City fan, but that doesn't stop me from appreciating football players from other clubs. Secondly I am not normally one to read autobiographies of sports men and women who are still active in their chosen profession. The main reason for this is that they are unable to dish the dirt on their fellow professionals, or if they do it is done solely with the intention of increasing their own book sales. So you may well ask given the above why I am writing this review of Jamie Carraghers autobiography. If truth be known ordinarily I would never have even considered reading this book, but when it came into my...

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  Naked Jamie - apron optional!

Advantages: Wide range of recipes from everyday to special occasions, clear layout and photos
Disadvantages: Not a cook book for those who aren't fans of Jamie!

...Love him or hate him, you can't dispute that Jamie Oliver has changed the way cooking is viewed nowadays. He has made cooking more accessible and has brought into the public eye the benefits of healthy eating and using fresh produce. His 'Return of the Naked Chef' is my favourite cook book, so I thought I'd share its delights with you. This book was published in 2000 to accompany Jamie's second TV series, so it is a bit old now but definitely worth adding to your kitchen shelf, due to its diverse array of recipes. As it is a few years old now it can normally be found on special offer - its £9 now on Amazon. Jamie was originally named the 'Naked Chef' due to his beliefs in cooking - using the bare essentials in your cupboard and stripping down restaurant methods to the reality of home. He takes the recipes from his restaurants...

helenmayclark 25.05.2005 · Read review
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Jamie T - Panic Prevention

Advantages: Alternative, exciting new music
Disadvantages: A bit 'different' for some

...Oh in a world where NME-prone indie bands consistently fill the airwaves with music that is a lot of the time merely the Smiths meets the Stone Roses, it's always nice to get something a little 'different'?oh and NME and massive fans of him. This something a little 'different' is Jamie T. The one-man band from London town. I first saw him live, after a recommendation from a friend, last March in a small venue in Nottingham?and twelve months on he can do no wrong. When I saw him that night, it was simply a scraggly looking 20-ish year old, sat on a stool with an electro-acoustic bass guitar, mesmerising an audience of no more than 100. Last month I saw him once again playing to an audience of ten times that, with an entourage of another half-a-dozen on stage with him. The rawness of the first gig was what impressed me most...

carl.mcqueen 19.03.2007 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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You too can cook like Jamie - Jamies Ministry Of Food

Advantages: Easy recipes to follow, healthy
Disadvantages: Can need a lot of ingredients

...My sister got this book for Christmas as a present. We had watched the series that was aired late last year and really enjoyed watching Jamie teach the recipes. The book is based on the premise of the series, which is that anyone can cook if they are taught some simple recipes. Jamie's vision is that if he teaches some people recipes and they teach two people and they teach two people and so on then everyone would learn to cook. It is a good idea although I am not sure will work. Anyway the book is a hard covered book, which is fairly large although not too heavy so can be easily carried around. The front cover shows Jamie sat with a plate in front of him. At the top is the title of the book then at the bottom it says anyone can learn to cook in 24 hours. The spine is red with the title of the book. The back has got a picture...

wendz86 20.10.2009 · Read review
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