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Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life |  | Author: Jamie Oliver
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 5014
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1401322425
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563
EAN: 9781401322427
ASIN: 1401322425
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
Home is where the heart is . . . This book is very close to my heart. It's about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavors all year round. When I began writing it, I didn't really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly . . . my vegetable patch! I came to realize last year that it's not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed and open, can also offer this. I love to spend time at home in the village where I grew up, working with the boss, Mother Nature, in my garden and seeing all my beautiful veggies coming out of the ground. Inside you'll find over one hundred new recipes, plus some basic planting information and tips if you fancy having a go at getting your hands dirty as well!
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 Damaged and Dirty Product August 22, 2010
Kristen Brewer (BOISE, ID, US)
Great book, great pictures, all together... it's a favorite! I can't wait to try all the recipes.
 WOW Anyone who loves to cook needs this book August 20, 2010
debra schelberger
I give this cookbbok 5 stars . If you love to cook this is the book that should be in everones kitchen. Great tips on how to grow vegatables. Lots of pictures and easy recipies. Jamie Oliver mixes ingredients that I would never have thought of and I love to cook. Pizza dough is the best. Give the book a try and watch his Jamie at home cooking shows.You can learn so much from him .
Beautiful Book August 20, 2010
N. Oldani
Book looks great. I haven't made anything directly from it yet, but have certainly taken some inspiration from it. The images and lessons are amazing. Love Jamie Oliver and what he does!!!!
Cooking from the garden August 6, 2010
Di Graham (SW VA)
I have enjoyed the tv show with Jamie cooking produce from his garden. This book follows up on the show. The recipes are the same ones that he cooked. This is wonderful, because the book has the specific ingredients listed with cooking times, etc. that one needs after getting inspiration from watching the tv show. He makes it very easy to make great meals from foods on hand. The pictures in this book are fabulous, also.
 My least favorite of his cookbooks, but great for "large garden" farmers July 6, 2010
A. Chandler (Austin, TX)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I should start by saying I consider the author to be an excellent chef with fresh and natural food...I am a fan.
I also am grateful that he went deeper than simply listing recipes. He mentioned the best eggs to buy (organic) and what happens to both the eggs and chickens in factory situations and why the health of the chicken matters to taste. He adopted hens who were crippled from having to stand on a wire their whole lives without moving in a factory farm.
I love that he focuses on fresh ingredients from the garden.
Okay, so that said...
First, this is for someone with a massive garden. We have a huge one but each recipe calls for quite a list of fresh ingredients including all the spices. Either decide what you should leave out, figure in your head how much dried herbs to use, or hope that you grow tons of veggies and herbs or it will be costly in many cases.
Second, I simply found the dishes to be pretty unusual in many cases...
I'll get to that in a minute though. I have to say first that it was REALLY odd to have a baby lamb with a number spray painted on him being sold for slaughter at a market on the front of the lamb recipes. What?? I would like it if I thought that was delivering some kind of message, but I knew it wasn't since it was followed with the best ways to cook him. That was a bit unappetizing...even if I could find lamb in the grocery store, that picture would stop me in my tracks.
I'll overlook that and say the rest of the pictures are just gorgeous and he has an amazing garden...but back to the unusual tastes...
Here are some examples of recipes in the book:
Incredible smashed peas and fava beans on toast
Really very delicious simple lamb tartare (Oh, God, raw lamb...oh it looked horrid)
Curried Cauliflower Fritters
Indian Carrot Salad
Smoked beets with grilled steak and cottage cheese dressing
Grilled butterflied monkfish with a sweet runner bean stew
Crispy Zucchini flowers stuffed with ricotta and mint
While not all dishes were unusual, many others were simply recipes for plain grilled fish or grilled meat, a pizza, etc...
Too, there were so many photos and divider pages that this large cookbook actually held very few recipes in comparison to the size of the book.
I love all things veggie but I guess my garden is more limited than I thought prior to purchase.
That said, this is a GREAT chef. Although I wasn't a big fan of this cookbook and wound up just tearing out 4 recipes and giving the rest of the book away, I have most of his other books and I do like them.
Bottom line, decide if you feel adventurous, have a true farm garden or even don't mind a trip to a specialty market for some of the ingredients...if so, it's a good one and he inspires. If not, try some of his other works or flip through this one at a store for a good length of time prior to purchase.
Still, kudos on the chicken chapter. Most are uneducated on the inhumanity of regular farm raised hens and I applaud that education.
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