Jamie's Kitchen by Jamie Oliver Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $16.96 You Save: $22.99 (58%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.14 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of Jamie's Kitchen
Book Review: Easy, Fun, Delicious
Summary: 5 Stars
Dont think twice, if you are starting a cookbook collection or is just searching for inspiration - Jamie's cookboks are for you... bought it for my wife...couldn't stop reading it and trying it out....
Good choice!
Good taste!
Book Review: Entertaining and simply fabulous food
Summary: 5 Stars
Jamie Oliver is quite rightly famous for liking his food unpretentious, fresh and delicious. he is quite quirky and funny as well, and this good humour shines through his recipes.There are all sorts of delicious things in here, including a fabulous basic bread recipe that can be manipulated into all sorts of good things, but the beauty of the recipes are that they can all be whipped up in fairly short periods of time if friends and family drop in. There are the usual quick and easies, as well as a number of far more spectacular dishes.
If you have a reasonaly well stocked pantry and this cook book, who knows what miracles can happen in the kitchen. This is not just a book for people who love cooking, it is also for people who like the eating as well!
Book Review: Excellent author, excellent book
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the first of many Jamie Oliver books that my husband and I own and it's the one that started our obsession with his recipes. We regularly make the recipe for Lebanese chicken and have served it many times for guests who rave about it. The Chinese chicken parcels and Asian eggplant are also fantastic. Oliver uses a number of ingredients regularly that may be odd additions to some folks. He is big on lemon, mint and other fresh herbs, for example. But trust him, the combination of ingredients always work out well.
As other people have mentioned, his choice of measurement units (i.e. a knob of butter (British term?) or handful - my hands are small, my husband's big) are sometimes confusing. I have also noticed that when a recipe says it serves 4 it often feeds 6-8. Overall, however this is a great book.
Book Review: Good tips, not so good recipies...
Summary: 3 Stars
I was excited to get this cook book in the mail because I enjoy J.Oliver's sinmple approach to cooking. Unfortunetly, I found the meals he prepares impractical and too delicate for a family meal. His tips were helpful on food preparation but the rest was just pretty on paper.Book Review: Great expectations, no so good results
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this book does not make Jamie a favor, its not what i was expecting for, its more of a lots of pictures, a story behind a certain food, how to list and tips, but not really the best for cooking or for recipes, i feel that some chapters are really good, but there is something missing in this book that will leave you wondering if its more of a book for reading while in bead that one to be sitting on took of your kitchen, great illustrations and pictures but i feel that is lacking some content