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Jamie's Kitchen [Hardcover]

Jamie Oliver (Author)
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Publication Date: 6 Sep 2002

An entirely different kind of cookbook from the country's hottest chef, to accompany an 8-part television series on Channel 4.

Jamie Oliver is setting up a new restaurant, which is also a training school for young chefs, and you're invited to find out how he gets along. The book will feature all the recipes from Jamie's cookery course as well as from the restaurant menu, including the ultimate in Mediterranean-style fast food - pasta and fresh sauces, thick wedges of bruschetta with basil and tomatoes, warm vats of stew for the winter and simple French salads for the summer. Follow Jamie's hints and tips, be a part of Oliver's Army and learn how to make delicious food alongside him.

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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph; 1st Edition edition (6 Sep 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 071814564X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718145644
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 2.9 x 28.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 51,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jamie Oliver's new book, Jamie's Kitchen has only been home a few days and it's already a victim of sticky page syndrome. Like its predecessors--The Naked Chef, The Return of the Naked Chef and Happy Days with the Naked Chef--its beautiful photographs are slightly slick with olive oil and the clear layout of recipes is traced across with fingerprints of chilli jam, while crumbs of polenta and splinters of rosemary nestle in the gritty crease of the spine. And that is the best recommendation for any cook book.

Oliver's recipes are truly irresistible and this book might well be his best ever--both in quantity (100 recipes) and quality. The Channel Four series associated with the book will focus on his experience of setting up a restaurant school to turn unemployed kids into professional chefs. While Jamie's Kitchen isn't a course book per se, he takes home cooks through kitchen essentials including poaching, boiling, steaming, stewing, frying, roasting, grilling and baking--all in a no-nonsense style.

He proves to be a terrific pupil of his own culinary education, spun in true-to-form Jamie style by the results of his experiments. He has learnt his lessons well from his time at the River Café with recipes such as spring minestrone, pasta and risottos to dream about and a focus on the quality and seasonality of produce. Rick Stein's style of pedagogy also works very well here with sections on basic chef skills such as chopping, boning and filleting. Jamie also helpfully includes easy recipes to some of the basics of French and Mediterranean cookery such as pesto and aioli. But he's also extended his playful ways with oriental cuisine--tempting us with dim sum delights such as steamed pork buns. He also finds room to skirt the borders of increasingly popular Spanish and Middle Eastern flavours with sweet roasted garlic soup and Lebanese lemon chicken respectively, and makes sure to throw in some dinner party dynamite with headliners such as fresh mackerel cooked in pomegranate, lime juice and tequila, and a baked chocolate pudding that's almost too good to share..

Will you be able to get or give a better cookbook than Jamie's Kitchen? You could try, but we wouldn't bet on it. --Fiona Buckland

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The re-run of Jamie's Kitchen in September 2003 brought in Channel 4's second biggest viewing figures of the year - topped only by Big Brother. 'Jamie offers lots of his chunky, hunky dishes for feeding the hungry, and slathers the whole lot with ladlefuls of encouragement' Daily Telegraph 'This is simply brilliant cooking, and Jamie's recipes are a joy' Nigel Slater 'Jamie's still a class act. The food is scruptious and easy to prepare ... should re-ignite even the laziest cook's passion for food' OK! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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262 of 277 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars No longer Naked 9 Sep 2002
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I've just received my order of cookbooks from Amazon (funny how all the good cookbooks come out at once) and Jamie's Kitchen was one of them. Normally Jamie is my absolutely favourite chef, that guy rescued me from ready meal hell, however with his latest offering I don't think I'll be reaching for it after a hard day at the office as this cookbook is in a completely different direction from his previous 3. The recipes are much much more resturant style (which I suppose is only fair as he's actually opening a resturant, he could hardly serve steak sandwiches), therefore his recipes are great for dinner parties but not particularly great for everyday. The dishes all looked lovely (the book is bigger than normal, more like a coffee table book and is full of gorgeous shots of food and alot of the man himself) but I was nearly completely through reading the book before I came over a recipe I was drooling over, desperate to try (mozzarella, bacon and bread kebabs on rosemary sticks). Another departure is quite a few pages showing techniques, which I thought was a bit against his slap it all in approach. One of the other books I brought was Nigella Lawson's Forever Summer and comparing the two I noticed how the two cooks seem to almost have metamorphosised into each other, Nigella's first book How to Eat I always thought had some quite fussy complicated recipes whereas now her cooking is much more centred to the fun, quick and easy approach, specially with her latest book, Jamie seems to be going into reverse, but even so with his resturant style recipes they're still not as complicated and fussy as say Gary Rhodes recipes. If you're fan of Jamie's I'd still recommend you buy this even if it's just to drool over the pictures of the food (and him) and to see how his career has progressed.
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53 of 58 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Jamie's Kitchen, can you stand the heat? 21 Nov 2002
By Philip Roberts
Format:Hardcover
I have now watched Jamie's Kitchen, and been very interested throughout, but I have now also eaten at 'Fifteen' the Shorditch Restaurant Jamie and his young trainee chefs have began working at after their intensive training course under the watchful eye of the Geezer of Gourmet, Jamie Oliver himself.

Where this book is different to his others is these recipes are more complicated, and the type of things he will be serving up in his restaurant, so not so easy for us to rustle up at home. Some of the ingredients are things I had never heard of but for dinner parties or special occasions they are well worth the effort. I can only keep my fingers crossed that my attempts will look like the amazing illustrations in the book (truly drool making), but hey I will try my best and no doubt enjoy the result.

When I watch Jamie on TV it is plain to see his enthusiasm for food and cooking, and that really comes across in Jamie's Kitchen too, I have even found myself using some of his catchphrases while cooking!!

There are plenty of recipes in this book to keep me going for a long time, and I will do my best to test them out, If I fail at an attempt, what the hell, it will have been fun, But if I manage to pull off the amazing truly mouth-watering dishes Jamie has put into this book, well I will be a very happy chap, and no doubt so will be the friends I will get round to try them out too!

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Let's begin ... 22 Oct 2003
By "wartaal73"
Format:Hardcover
A completely different book from the previous ones. The previous three books are a collection of somehow provocative recipes that twist traditional dishes from Italy and France with some good results. They were a sort of college-friendly cookbooks, but with not much help for the basics.
This book is different. It gives hints and explainations for the basic cooking styles. It helps a beginner to improve his/her skills. It also provides some interesting recipes, which appear to be "cleaner" then in the past.
Buy it if you are a beginner or if you do not own the first two books. But if you look for refined cooking and good culinary tips (and you are able to spot cooking time errors) go for Ramsey's book instead.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great stuff!
I love this book for its delightful and easy to make recipes. Great selection of recipes make it a timeless classic. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Pete69
2.0 out of 5 stars Good book ....but....
The book is ok with nice photos and good printing qualitty....but..as far as for jamie récipes it could be a little more powerfull the récipes are you know to normal... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Luis Parada
4.0 out of 5 stars great
Another great book by Jamie. Love the pictures and easy to use recipes. Also love Jamie's use of herbs works well
Published 2 months ago by Shirkaholic
5.0 out of 5 stars Jamie's Kitchen
Bought this book for my own use for a particular recipe recommended by a friend and will try other recipes
Published 4 months ago by Dr Paul Ravenscroft
5.0 out of 5 stars Jamie at his best
Bit of a classic now and includes things like jamie's Moroccan Lemon Chicken, which is one of the best simple chicken recipes you will ever find. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hotwired
5.0 out of 5 stars Jamie cooks up a storm on Amazon
I am 'in between properties' so have everything in storage. I wanted a particular recipe from 'Jamie's Kitchen', couldn't find the book in local shops because it is quite old and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Woolsack
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
nice book with lots of great recipes,wd Jamie. Would recommend this to any aspiring chef, even the wife managed to follow some recipes.
Published 22 months ago by GAZ
3.0 out of 5 stars Jamies Books
The book was a Christmas gift so happy it came on time.
The only problem was it was badly wrapped, the cover was bashed in the corner and the front cover sleave was torn. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2011 by dd
5.0 out of 5 stars very pleased
I bought this book to take to usa for my daughter-in-law, i'm sure she will love it
Published on 25 April 2010 by Mrs. Mavis Henson
4.0 out of 5 stars Another good cookbook
While I use Happy Days for more casual cooking, I use this one when I want to impress. The recipes are a bit more complicated and require more ingredients that the Happy Days book... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2009 by French reader
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