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America - A country of many contrasts. For me, it presented the ultimate food trip to explore places, ingredients, food culture & traditions. I wanted to get to the heart of great American food, to get past the junk and super-sized portions. I set off on what I knew would be a completely inspiring trip. I wasn't wrong. . . from New York to New Orleans, the energy of Los Angeles to the big skies of Wyoming, I found what I was looking for: some of the most diverse and delicious recipes I've ever come across! And with 120 of them in this book, I'll show you the quick and easy way to put a little slice of America on your dinner table. What a trip!
About the Author
Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parents' pub, the Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight, and has gone on to work with some of the world's top chefs.
He founded Fifteen restaurant in London and the associated charity, Fifteen Foundation, which continues to train disadvantaged young people to become chefs. There are now three other Fifteen restaurants in the world: Cornwall, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Jamie has also launched a chain of high street restaurants in the UK called Jamie's Italian.
In 2005 Jamie led a campaign to improve the quality of school dinners in the UK and, through the Feed Me Better movement, caused the government to substantially change its policy towards school food.
Jamie continues to write for publications in the UK and around the world, including his own magazine, Jamie Magazine. He lives in London and Essex with his wife, Jools, and their daughters, Poppy, Daisy and Petal
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143 of 153 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jamie says he wants to stick up for American food, which often gets pigeon-holed as pure junk; this book is his way of showing how delicious, funky, varied and outrageous it can be. The book's divided into six sections: New York, Louisiana, Arizona, Los Angeles, Georgia, Wild West. As always it is beautifully illustrated by David Loftus's photos and the text is entertaining, good travelogue by JO. The real treat of course is the recipes, so let's cut straight to them.
Selected Recipes:
New York
Burgers, Waldorf Salad My Way, Candied Bacon Green Salad, Deep Pan Pizza, My NYC Cheesecake, Fiery Dan Dan Noodles, Jewish Pencillin (chicken soup) , Potato Latke Breakfast, Veal Parmigiana, Killer Mac n Cheese
Lousiana
Southern Red Beans and Pork, Amazing Pork Cracklings, Jambalaya, Southern Sausage Stew, two different Gumbos, Cajun Blackened Fish, two different recipes for Alligator (you can use pork chicken or swordfish if for some reason you don't have any alligator handy), Sweet Potato Pie, Bourbon and Pecan Tart
Arizona
Mexican Breakfast (this one made me dribble on the page it looks so good, spicey eggs and tomato in a tortilla), Chilli Cheese Cornbread, Navajo Brekkie, Watermelon Salad, Epic Churro Lamb, Chicken Mole (ie with chocolate), Peach Cobbler, Hot Choccy and Churros (with chilli in it), Chilli Popcorn
Los Angeles
Breakfast Tortillas, La Brea Salad, Seven Seas Soup (the one they make for the christening in LA), Mexican Street Salad, Fiery Shrimp Cocktail, Gorditas with Salsa, Chicken on Chickpeas, Stuffed Tomato Tortillas, Tuna Tartare, Chocolate Mole Tart, Blood Orange Granita
Georgia
Venison and Creamy Beans, Southern Pecan and Apple Salad, Comforting Turkey Stew, Crab Balls, Old-Fashioned Peach Ice Cream, Rich Grits, Southern Fried Chicken, Ham Hock on Green Grits, Southern Style Pork and Slaw, Beer Butt Chicken, Five Star Pork Ribs, My Epic Barbecue Sauce
Wild West
Best Baked Beans, Trout and Salad, Mountain Meatballs, Cornish Cowboy Pasties (amazingly this one is genuinely a US recipe), Traybaked Chicken, Chilli con Jamie, Awesome Apple Pancakes, Cinammon Swirls, Appleberry Pie
As you can see from the list - less useful for the inexperienced cook, the lover of plain flavours, the dieter, the chilli-hater, and the vegetarian! But for those of us who absolutely love proper American food this book is GREAT and can be a source for recipes to remind me of many happy holidays driving across the map. A really fantastic book.
Selected Recipes:
New York
Burgers, Waldorf Salad My Way, Candied Bacon Green Salad, Deep Pan Pizza, My NYC Cheesecake, Fiery Dan Dan Noodles, Jewish Pencillin (chicken soup) , Potato Latke Breakfast, Veal Parmigiana, Killer Mac n Cheese
Lousiana
Southern Red Beans and Pork, Amazing Pork Cracklings, Jambalaya, Southern Sausage Stew, two different Gumbos, Cajun Blackened Fish, two different recipes for Alligator (you can use pork chicken or swordfish if for some reason you don't have any alligator handy), Sweet Potato Pie, Bourbon and Pecan Tart
Arizona
Mexican Breakfast (this one made me dribble on the page it looks so good, spicey eggs and tomato in a tortilla), Chilli Cheese Cornbread, Navajo Brekkie, Watermelon Salad, Epic Churro Lamb, Chicken Mole (ie with chocolate), Peach Cobbler, Hot Choccy and Churros (with chilli in it), Chilli Popcorn
Los Angeles
Breakfast Tortillas, La Brea Salad, Seven Seas Soup (the one they make for the christening in LA), Mexican Street Salad, Fiery Shrimp Cocktail, Gorditas with Salsa, Chicken on Chickpeas, Stuffed Tomato Tortillas, Tuna Tartare, Chocolate Mole Tart, Blood Orange Granita
Georgia
Venison and Creamy Beans, Southern Pecan and Apple Salad, Comforting Turkey Stew, Crab Balls, Old-Fashioned Peach Ice Cream, Rich Grits, Southern Fried Chicken, Ham Hock on Green Grits, Southern Style Pork and Slaw, Beer Butt Chicken, Five Star Pork Ribs, My Epic Barbecue Sauce
Wild West
Best Baked Beans, Trout and Salad, Mountain Meatballs, Cornish Cowboy Pasties (amazingly this one is genuinely a US recipe), Traybaked Chicken, Chilli con Jamie, Awesome Apple Pancakes, Cinammon Swirls, Appleberry Pie
As you can see from the list - less useful for the inexperienced cook, the lover of plain flavours, the dieter, the chilli-hater, and the vegetarian! But for those of us who absolutely love proper American food this book is GREAT and can be a source for recipes to remind me of many happy holidays driving across the map. A really fantastic book.
54 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've had this book for a couple of weeks now and tried out quite a few of the recipes.
On the plus side, the book looks great and contains loads of anecdotes and stories, so is good to leaf through even if you're not looking for a recipes.
The recipes are clear and easy to follow - so far I've tried the chilli, the jambulaya and one of the salads, and they all worked really well.
All the obvious American recipes are here (fried chicken, deep pan pizza, burgers) but there are also recipes included from different immigrant communities, including Chinese and Egyptian recipes, as well as Native American dishes. There are also recipes from different parts of the States as well - Southern food, Cajun food and so on. I really liked the mixture of different things that are included, and it gives you a feel for how food culture changes with each immigrant group that arrives.
On the negative side, most of the recipes feature meat and chilli - if you're a veggie, don't bother!
Also, the recipes all seem to serve vast numbers of people - usually eight, but sometimes up to 12. I don't think many people have to cook for those sorts of numbers on a regular basis. Adapting the recipes to serve four would have made this book more useful, as they'd then be easier to scale down to two or double if there were more people to feed.
The recipes also aren't quite as easy or fuss free as some as Jamie Oliver's other books. The gumbo recipe instructed you to cook unskinned and unboned chicken pieces until they were tender, then take them out the sauce, remove the skin and bone, shred the meat then put it back in the stew. Doing this probably added to the flavour of the dish but it was messy, a bit of a faff and I ended up burning my fingers!
Quite a big proportion of the savoury recipes call for two or more types of meat or fish - depending on your budget, this could limit how much you used the book.
Overall, it's a good book, although more useful to experienced cooks who can afford to spend a bit more on food and have a big family to feed. It's nice to have and good to read though, but I don't think it'll be one of my most used cookbooks.
On the plus side, the book looks great and contains loads of anecdotes and stories, so is good to leaf through even if you're not looking for a recipes.
The recipes are clear and easy to follow - so far I've tried the chilli, the jambulaya and one of the salads, and they all worked really well.
All the obvious American recipes are here (fried chicken, deep pan pizza, burgers) but there are also recipes included from different immigrant communities, including Chinese and Egyptian recipes, as well as Native American dishes. There are also recipes from different parts of the States as well - Southern food, Cajun food and so on. I really liked the mixture of different things that are included, and it gives you a feel for how food culture changes with each immigrant group that arrives.
On the negative side, most of the recipes feature meat and chilli - if you're a veggie, don't bother!
Also, the recipes all seem to serve vast numbers of people - usually eight, but sometimes up to 12. I don't think many people have to cook for those sorts of numbers on a regular basis. Adapting the recipes to serve four would have made this book more useful, as they'd then be easier to scale down to two or double if there were more people to feed.
The recipes also aren't quite as easy or fuss free as some as Jamie Oliver's other books. The gumbo recipe instructed you to cook unskinned and unboned chicken pieces until they were tender, then take them out the sauce, remove the skin and bone, shred the meat then put it back in the stew. Doing this probably added to the flavour of the dish but it was messy, a bit of a faff and I ended up burning my fingers!
Quite a big proportion of the savoury recipes call for two or more types of meat or fish - depending on your budget, this could limit how much you used the book.
Overall, it's a good book, although more useful to experienced cooks who can afford to spend a bit more on food and have a big family to feed. It's nice to have and good to read though, but I don't think it'll be one of my most used cookbooks.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
We moved to Georgia from the UK last year. We were sent this as a Christmas Gift, which I thought was a little strange at the time - an English cookbook about America bought in England and sent to the USA?
But I have just bought 2 copies as gifts for people in England! It truly is full of authentic Georgia recipes - Pulled pork, Shrimp and Grits, Pecans, Mash, Collard Greens, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, Corn, Slaw, Ribs... The Louisiana section is excellent too - Gumbo, Crab, etc etc.
There is lots of good background information too, about the way people live, cook and eat.
PS Don't believe the hype - I have never been to so many fantastic restaurants, and eaten so much good food. And the barbecue competitions - y'all don't know what ya missin!
(If you enjoy the Georgia section, then look out for Paula Deen cookbooks - she is Georgia's Jamie.)
But I have just bought 2 copies as gifts for people in England! It truly is full of authentic Georgia recipes - Pulled pork, Shrimp and Grits, Pecans, Mash, Collard Greens, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, Corn, Slaw, Ribs... The Louisiana section is excellent too - Gumbo, Crab, etc etc.
There is lots of good background information too, about the way people live, cook and eat.
PS Don't believe the hype - I have never been to so many fantastic restaurants, and eaten so much good food. And the barbecue competitions - y'all don't know what ya missin!
(If you enjoy the Georgia section, then look out for Paula Deen cookbooks - she is Georgia's Jamie.)
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