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Zu Gast bei Jamie - In seinem neuen Bestseller lädt uns Jamie ein, die oft unterschätzte Küche seines Heimatlandes kennenzulernen.
Pünktlich zum Großereignis “Olympia 2012” in London stellt er uns klassische Gerichte, aber auch die moderne britische Küche vor. Von Frühstück & Brunch, Suppen, Neue britische Klassiker bis zur traditionellen Tea Time Zeremonie, dem Sunday Lunch oder Pies & Co. Etwa 200 Rezepte und über 500 Fotos machen Lust kulinarisches Neuland zu entdecken und geben außerdem Einblicke in das Land sowie in Jamies Leben. Seine individuelle Art zu kochen ist dabei unverkennbar. Natürlich kommt auch die typisch britische Pub-Kultur nicht zu kurz.
„This is beautiful comfort food at its best –
unfussy and unpretentious, but full of life!”
Jamie Oliver
Pünktlich zum Großereignis “Olympia 2012” in London stellt er uns klassische Gerichte, aber auch die moderne britische Küche vor. Von Frühstück & Brunch, Suppen, Neue britische Klassiker bis zur traditionellen Tea Time Zeremonie, dem Sunday Lunch oder Pies & Co. Etwa 200 Rezepte und über 500 Fotos machen Lust kulinarisches Neuland zu entdecken und geben außerdem Einblicke in das Land sowie in Jamies Leben. Seine individuelle Art zu kochen ist dabei unverkennbar. Natürlich kommt auch die typisch britische Pub-Kultur nicht zu kurz.
„This is beautiful comfort food at its best –
unfussy and unpretentious, but full of life!”
Jamie Oliver
408 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2011
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James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver, sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef and media personality well known for his growing list of food-focused television shows, his more recent roles in campaigning against the use of processed foods in national schools, and his campaign to change unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits for the better across the United Kingdom.
James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver, sometimes known as The Naked Chef, is an English chef and media personality well known for his growing list of food-focused television shows, his more recent roles in campaigning against the use of processed foods in national schools, and his campaign to change unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits for the better across the United Kingdom.
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October 30, 2012
Readers of my blog know that I am a huge fan of Jamie Oliver, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review this cookbook. Many people caught "Britain fever" this summer due to the Olympics in London, and this cookbook is released at a time when the world is really interested in knowing more about the country and it's culture. This book honestly has some of the best looking recipes in any of Jamie's books yet, and that's saying something because I love all of this cookbooks!
The book is oversized, and at 416 pages, it is absolutely full of recipes, photos, and details of Jamie's trip around Britain looking for the best recipes and inspiration in the country. The gorgeous photos, are not just of the food, but also of Jamie's adventures around Britain. In a graphic style, almost like a scrapbook, he shares the people, culture, and the beautiful sights that he found along the way. I want to visit all of these places, he makes them look so inviting and beautiful.
Every recipe in the book has a heartfelt intro by Jamie, these alone will make you want to try the recipes no matter what the ingredients are! With recipes like "ER's Diamond Jubilee Chicken" (an upgrade on Coronation Chicken), and "Kate and Will's Wedding Pie" (a meat pie), I am willing to try the more traditional British dishes that I haven't been so sure about before.
There is an entire section of the book for "Afternoon Tea." Does anything get any more British than Tea Time? The recipes here sound delicious, and almost dessert-like, including "Sour Cranberry Bakewell" and "My Nan's St. Clement's Cake."
Not only do I love all the recipes, and want to try them all, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Jamie Oliver's adventures in Britain with it's uniquely British people and culture.
book sent by publicist and publisher in exchange for honest review
reviewed for http://inthehammockblog.blogspot.com
The book is oversized, and at 416 pages, it is absolutely full of recipes, photos, and details of Jamie's trip around Britain looking for the best recipes and inspiration in the country. The gorgeous photos, are not just of the food, but also of Jamie's adventures around Britain. In a graphic style, almost like a scrapbook, he shares the people, culture, and the beautiful sights that he found along the way. I want to visit all of these places, he makes them look so inviting and beautiful.
Every recipe in the book has a heartfelt intro by Jamie, these alone will make you want to try the recipes no matter what the ingredients are! With recipes like "ER's Diamond Jubilee Chicken" (an upgrade on Coronation Chicken), and "Kate and Will's Wedding Pie" (a meat pie), I am willing to try the more traditional British dishes that I haven't been so sure about before.
There is an entire section of the book for "Afternoon Tea." Does anything get any more British than Tea Time? The recipes here sound delicious, and almost dessert-like, including "Sour Cranberry Bakewell" and "My Nan's St. Clement's Cake."
Not only do I love all the recipes, and want to try them all, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Jamie Oliver's adventures in Britain with it's uniquely British people and culture.
book sent by publicist and publisher in exchange for honest review
reviewed for http://inthehammockblog.blogspot.com
June 10, 2024
This mighty book is Jamie Oliver's and David Loftus' finest collaboration so far.
Those two guys are responsible for the entire new wave of cook books and cooking programs and thanks to them the art of cooking became beloved hobby of millions around the globe.
The timing was perfect: Great Britain entered a phase of many celebrations, the Oliver/Loftus tandem was at it's finest and Jamie was already preparing this masterpiece for years.
The result is a book that bursts with love for food, culture and life.
It should be in every kitchen, certainly in every British kitchen.
Those two guys are responsible for the entire new wave of cook books and cooking programs and thanks to them the art of cooking became beloved hobby of millions around the globe.
The timing was perfect: Great Britain entered a phase of many celebrations, the Oliver/Loftus tandem was at it's finest and Jamie was already preparing this masterpiece for years.
The result is a book that bursts with love for food, culture and life.
It should be in every kitchen, certainly in every British kitchen.
February 4, 2013
A big hug from Jamie, with effusive photographs, long prose-poem recipes, Yemeni pancakes and pickalilly, and despite the length and heft of the book you feel like he's also rushing to tell you about homemade yogurt, mustard and infused liquor. It's probably a nightmare to be his wife, but the book is a mood-lifter.
July 20, 2018
Pros :
Great recipes.
Cons:
Who thought it was a good idea to have some print in red and yellow/ blue and red? (Breakfast Butty/One pan breakfast) It's virtually unreadable. As are the 'inserts' on the photograph pages which are white on coloured background.
Overall rating?
This would get 4 stars from me normally, but its supposed to be a cookery book and nearly half the pages are photographs. I bet if you took those out (and, nice though they are, they contribute nothing to the recipes) you would be left with a MUCH thinner book - maybe even half the size.
So I am deleting half my stars.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great recipe book - well, half of it is. ;)
Great recipes.
Cons:
Who thought it was a good idea to have some print in red and yellow/ blue and red? (Breakfast Butty/One pan breakfast) It's virtually unreadable. As are the 'inserts' on the photograph pages which are white on coloured background.
Overall rating?
This would get 4 stars from me normally, but its supposed to be a cookery book and nearly half the pages are photographs. I bet if you took those out (and, nice though they are, they contribute nothing to the recipes) you would be left with a MUCH thinner book - maybe even half the size.
So I am deleting half my stars.
Don't get me wrong, this is a great recipe book - well, half of it is. ;)
December 28, 2012
I was in the mood for a beautifully presented and not too high falutin' cookbook and that's what I got. It is pretty readable as a book and I found some interesting ideas. It seemed tremendously heavy on the flesh foods even for a book celebrating British cooking although the helpful 'v's next to veggie recipes in the index are in sufficient quantity to suggest that was only an impression.
I'm not sure it was really organised in the right way nor British enough to live up to its title but treated as a nice general cookbook for good food it works fine. I was a bit surprised by where the links to how to videos were and weren't. Like Jamie, I struggle with poached eggs and I would have liked to be able to watch the clingfilm pouch technique in action.
I was reading it when there were reports in the media that Jamie Oliver's recipes were worse nutritionally than supermarket ready meals. Like most 'show' cooks and chefs in my experience he relies a great deal on salt and understands the place of fat in an all-round satisfying experience. There are numerous references in the book to sociable weekend eating, occasional treats and so on.
I'm not sure it was really organised in the right way nor British enough to live up to its title but treated as a nice general cookbook for good food it works fine. I was a bit surprised by where the links to how to videos were and weren't. Like Jamie, I struggle with poached eggs and I would have liked to be able to watch the clingfilm pouch technique in action.
I was reading it when there were reports in the media that Jamie Oliver's recipes were worse nutritionally than supermarket ready meals. Like most 'show' cooks and chefs in my experience he relies a great deal on salt and understands the place of fat in an all-round satisfying experience. There are numerous references in the book to sociable weekend eating, occasional treats and so on.
February 2, 2013
The first recipe that I have tried from this book the the fresh tomato soup (pg.46). I havent made this with the croutons, just made the soup on its own for lunch. The combination of tomatos, basil and garlic brings a lovely smell to the kitchen. I used frozen basil rather than fresh basil as this was all i had, but this meant that when i blended it it just crumbled rather than ending up stewed. The idea of blending the ingredients whilst uncooked was a little odd and I found doing the carrots particularly difficult to blend. But it smells nice and tastes ok too!
July 27, 2015
Why haven't I cooked anything from this book??!!!. My picky family won't eat the lovely food (I know they won't eat rabbit)but I would eat absolutely everything cooked from this book because they are pretty gorgeous recipes. I didn't realise British food could be so good! This is a lovely, chunky book with fabulous photos and displays. I promise I will cook something from this book... within the next week, promise! You've got to love a good looking book though.
October 16, 2012
I do love a good cookbook. I read them much like a read a novel. There is much to be learned within the covers of cookbooks - even if I never use a recipe I pick up tips and tricks and taste combinations I might never have thought of. Some of my favorite dinners have come out reading different recipes and combining pieces of them to come up with a whole. I am a collector of cookbooks and my shelves hold one more now.
Jamie Oliver's Great Britain is a beautiful cookbook full of stunning photography. Being a visual person I adore such books. They don't make for better recipes but they do make for more enjoyable paging. It is also helpful to a cook, in my opinion, to have a photo of the finished dish. At least for this cook. Photos, alas, are expensive and many great cookbooks don't have many but Mr. Oliver is a famous chef and his cookbook is crammed with photographs that make you drool. I was a happy woman making my way through the book. A very happy woman.
As to the recipes? They are pretty straightforward but this is not a cookbook for a beginner. It is a book for someone who has a bit of a clue as to what goes on in a kitchen. With instructions that include using a "knob" of butter and a "lug" of olive oil and cooking something until it is done you can certainly see that a certain knowledge would be required. But for a cook comfortable in the kitchen, for a cook that is looking to prepared simple, yet not so basic good English food this is a keeper of a cookbook. It is a collector's cookbook for sure and I am thrilled to be adding to my shelves. There are many recipes that I will try and play with as time goes on. From the simple like the Fresh Tomato Soup I show you here to the Honey Roasted Lemon Rabbit that I will try as soon as I get another rabbit in my hands.
If you are a cookbook lover, if you love watching Jamie Oliver on the TV (and I must admit that I have not seen his show - the horror!), if you have someone that loves cookbooks - this is a great book to buy as a gift or to grace your collection.
Jamie Oliver's Great Britain is a beautiful cookbook full of stunning photography. Being a visual person I adore such books. They don't make for better recipes but they do make for more enjoyable paging. It is also helpful to a cook, in my opinion, to have a photo of the finished dish. At least for this cook. Photos, alas, are expensive and many great cookbooks don't have many but Mr. Oliver is a famous chef and his cookbook is crammed with photographs that make you drool. I was a happy woman making my way through the book. A very happy woman.
As to the recipes? They are pretty straightforward but this is not a cookbook for a beginner. It is a book for someone who has a bit of a clue as to what goes on in a kitchen. With instructions that include using a "knob" of butter and a "lug" of olive oil and cooking something until it is done you can certainly see that a certain knowledge would be required. But for a cook comfortable in the kitchen, for a cook that is looking to prepared simple, yet not so basic good English food this is a keeper of a cookbook. It is a collector's cookbook for sure and I am thrilled to be adding to my shelves. There are many recipes that I will try and play with as time goes on. From the simple like the Fresh Tomato Soup I show you here to the Honey Roasted Lemon Rabbit that I will try as soon as I get another rabbit in my hands.
If you are a cookbook lover, if you love watching Jamie Oliver on the TV (and I must admit that I have not seen his show - the horror!), if you have someone that loves cookbooks - this is a great book to buy as a gift or to grace your collection.
December 9, 2015
This is a wonderful book. Full of heart-felt nostalgia, lovely personal stories that give each recipe context, and even little snippets of food history thrown in. I love Jamie's food writing, his voice rings so true, and his passion for the ingredients comes across so genuinely.
He really seems to care about making recipes accessible, all about hearty flavors, honoring local ingredients, and satisfying real appetites. The happiness oozing from the pages of this book is almost palpable.
As always the photography and overall design of the book is gorgeous. And the recipes I marked to cook at home, were numerous. What a pleasure of a book, perfect to curl up with and get lost in....
A celebration of all things British and it made me totally home-sick!
He really seems to care about making recipes accessible, all about hearty flavors, honoring local ingredients, and satisfying real appetites. The happiness oozing from the pages of this book is almost palpable.
As always the photography and overall design of the book is gorgeous. And the recipes I marked to cook at home, were numerous. What a pleasure of a book, perfect to curl up with and get lost in....
A celebration of all things British and it made me totally home-sick!
May 26, 2013
I have to say it, I probably won't cook many items from this one. But I've been a Jamie Oliver fan for a while, so I had to check it out.
I've only cooked one item: the cauliflower cheese soup - it turned out all right but, as with most Jamie recipes, you need to have many skills before making. And honestly, putting the soup in a casserole dish in the oven, after cooking on the stove seemed unnecessary.
The thing this one has going for it though, is it has the crispy duck salad and the ice cream bombe from his Christmas television specials. We've made both before, to great success. Having them in the book is worth it.
I've only cooked one item: the cauliflower cheese soup - it turned out all right but, as with most Jamie recipes, you need to have many skills before making. And honestly, putting the soup in a casserole dish in the oven, after cooking on the stove seemed unnecessary.
The thing this one has going for it though, is it has the crispy duck salad and the ice cream bombe from his Christmas television specials. We've made both before, to great success. Having them in the book is worth it.
March 10, 2018
Absolutely stunning cookbook to look at but I’m a bit relieved I bought this second hand for £1 because the recipes are proving infuriating. Once I get past the thousand ingredients list, the instructions are all over the place. I’m a very inexperienced cook but I must have re read the recipe for Veg Vindaloo a thousand times to figure out what went where and when. My 17 year old son normally eats everything and anything but he gave this recipe a 2 out of 5. Meaning he ate it but the leftovers are still in the fridge. Going to brave the Mulligatawny but not feeling hopeful after comparing it to other recipes for the same dish.
January 2, 2013
Visually lovely & written in a very engaging style. I was surprised by the level of involvement for each recipe as I was under the impression that Jamie's recipes were simple, nutritious & for everyone. There is a large block of text accompanying each recipe that needs to be read carefully beforehand & it was hard to find my place when I needed to refer back to it during the creative process. This book is for dedicated cooks who enjoy spending time in the kitchen.
March 26, 2014
The recipes are written in a paragraph/block of text rather than a point form so it's harder to follow during cooking, and there is definitely more involvement with each meal - it's not a 15, 30 or even sometimes a 45 minute recipe by any means! They are meant for special occasions or those days you just want to experiment and try something new-to-you. Jamie definitely goes above and beyond to change my mind about how boring British food USED TO be.
April 27, 2014
Perfect. The matte, full color pages were not irritating and glossy. The book was beautifully detailed and photographed. Oliver's commentary is priceless and so appreciated. I don't buy cookbooks that are simply lists of ingredients and step by step instructions anymore. I am more than willing to pay $30+ for books that are well-written and thoughtful with lots of insight and backstory. This was very enjoyable.
December 13, 2011
Another gem from Jamie. Love the presentation and the paper used. Loaded with awesome recipes that anyone could try - nothing too fussy. Although a lot of his recipes use chilli which i am allergic to i can usually leave it out and still make most of the dishes in the book. Can't wait to try the Jam Tarts.
January 16, 2013
I had a big feeling of deja-vu while going through the latest Jamie Oliver cookbook. Being British it's logical he's published most of these recipes in one form or another already. This collection was probably made to ride along on 2012's Brit craze. There wasn't anything really exciting (to me) in here. Not really worth seeking out if you have read or own a few of Jamie's cookbooks already.
March 5, 2013
I love this cookbook! It's easy to read, colorful, and loaded with pictures. Every recipe has a photo, and the pages are easy to turn. Which might not seem that amazing... but it counts when you want to find a recipe fast! All of the recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients are not so far fetched or too fancy. Fancy cooking has it's place, but I'm all about flavor.
September 5, 2013
Really liked this book. Yes, it's incredibly pretty, but more so, the recipes are exciting! There are loads of old favorites that are just begging to be cooked. I borrowed this out from the library, and am glad I did, as most of the recipes are not ones I'd cook, but some of the cakes, breakfasts and soups are lovely. Yummo Jamie, doing it well as always!
November 5, 2013
I was so impressed with this book. One normally think that Great Britain's cuisine is not very good, but if you dig in their roots and take the time of discovering what it really has to show, you can get amazed. If you like learning about food from different countries than yours, this is the book for you.
July 10, 2014
I think this is the best of his cookbooks, but it's possible that's because, despite my American-ness, British Sunday roasts are the epitome of comfort food to me.
And, as usual, if you can ignore his smugness and the slight sanctimoniousness of his personality, they are good, solid recipes.
And, as usual, if you can ignore his smugness and the slight sanctimoniousness of his personality, they are good, solid recipes.
December 16, 2014
For me only Jamie's 'Dinners' beats this book to date. But then I haven't read all his books. Our love of good old British food is taken to the max in this book. If you like Jamie's London Lad no nonsense cooking - you'll love this collection of classics - and some with a twist.
November 10, 2015
It's difficult to get some ingredients in the recipes here in Singapore. Tried a breakfast recipe this morning.
The book is well organized into breakfast, tea, pub snacks, sauces making it easy to navigate daily cooking requirements at various time of the day.
The book is well organized into breakfast, tea, pub snacks, sauces making it easy to navigate daily cooking requirements at various time of the day.
December 19, 2012
More classic Jamie Oliver....fabulous!
November 7, 2011
Going to have to buy this one i think,
January 7, 2012
I liked this one more than his American food cookbook from last year. I liked the stories about his family and childhood and there are several recipes I want to try, like the roasted duck.
June 2, 2012
another way to respect food and life!
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October 11, 2012Definitely a must-read for Anglophiles.
October 11, 2012
Great book
February 21, 2013
This is the best Jamie's cookbook!!! I loved it and I bought also one for my friend as well.
November 13, 2012
full review here: http://www.girlichef.com/2012/10/Jami...
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