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Jamie's Italy By Jamie Oliver ( Hyperion )
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver's food and cooking. In Jamie's Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure that Italy's influence reaches us all. Italy has inspired Jamie Oliver throughout his career. His ambition has always been to travel across the country on a quest to capture the very essence of Italian cooking -- and to produce the best and simplest Italian cookbook for everybody anywhere to enjoy. Jamie's Italy is the result of that journey -- and it's a land of plenty. As well as providing more than 120 brand-new recipes for everything from risotto to roasts and spaghetti to stews, structured as traditional trattoria menus, Jamie takes you all over Italy to cook with and learn from the real masters of Italian cuisine: the locals. Far from the standard "lemons and olives" version of Italian cooking, Jamie's Italy is a cookbook by the people for the people. From Sicily to Tuscany, it's about the local fishermen, family bakers, and, of course, the "Mamas," sharing their recipes and the tips that have gone into their cooking for generations. But it's not only mouthwatering food that Jamie brings back home: it's also the spirit that makes cooking and eating absolutely central to family life, whichever part of Italy you're in. Bursting with the warmth and hospitality of real family life, this is both asuperbly accessible cookbook and a unique travelogue and diary, in which you'll find the authentic flavor of Italy and the people who live there. If you love quality food prepared with genuine passion -- you'll never want to leave Jamie's Italy.
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 Jamie Oliver Italy
Love his new book and great ideas. Have not made anything as yet. Love my cook books.
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WOW amazing receipes ( fergu_ie )
This is a brilliant cook book (my favorite from Jamie thus far) . I have cooked about 20 of the recipes either for guests or for my girlfriend and myself and all have agreed that the food tastes wonderful. This is a highly recommended book with easy and simple instructions on each dish. The ingredients also are quite easy once you have your own little herb garden, the rest is pretty basic. have really enjoyed cooking from this book.
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simplicity italian style
In keeping with his philosophy that cooking should be about minimal preparation of the freshest seasonally available ingredients Jamie Oliver has given us a treatment of Italian cuisine that shows the reader how easy it is to create delicious authentic Italian dishes. His writing style is relaxed and funny, (if you've ever seen Jamie on television you'll hear his charming voice as you read), and the photographs are gorgeous. Most importantly, the reader comes away not only with a catalog of wonderful recipies, but an understanding of the basic principles of Italian cooking that will let the reader create his or her own Italian dishes using whatever is seasonally available at his or her own local market. I was able to do just that a few days after finishing the book. I took one of the book recipes for silk handkerchiefs with pesto and used fava beans, (which had just come into season), fresh thyme, and parmigiano reggiano instead of pesto. The result was one of the best meals I have ever cooked. Jamie Oliver gives you the confidence to modify his recipes according to the principles of Italian regional cooking, (or simply invent you own!), with wonderful results.
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Simply Amazing!
I bought this book after I flipped through it at my Aunt's home. I thought it looked interesting, but after looking at the cookbook as an actual book, rather than a place for recipes I was astonished to find that I was perfectly happy sitting down and just reading it. The pictures are beautiful and the recipes that I have tried are delicious! My grandfather, a very proud Italian man was impressed with this book, and together we have tried some recipes and loved them! This book is full of Italian dishes that are fun to try with a bunch of family or good friends over for a Sunday dinner. Just great!
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Grazie, Jamie
How can I not recommend this book? It is one of the best of my vast Italian cookbook collection, of which I have over 1,000. Having been raised in an Italian and Sicilian home and having cooked in Italy's Piemonte and Sicily, plus owning an Italian restaurant at one time--also a culinary columnist for an Italian newspaper in California for eight years--I well know the soul of my people's cookery. I've ALWAYS felt, and written in my articles, that one had to be born to my kitchen, that a non-Italian couldn't grasp its essence, well I was proved wrong with Jamie's book JAMIE'S ITALY (and his TV cooking shows)... In this his latest book he has proved he is more connected to the heart of Italian cooking than most Italians. I've cooked about 15 recipes from JAMIE'S ITALY and not one has been a disappointment. Amoungst the many things I like about this newest book is that it is a good read, the recipes are authentic, well explained and not complicated... It is the cookery of the true ancient kitchen, nothing experimental, all well proved over the ages, all healthy. Thank you Jamie. Gian Banchero, Berkeley, California
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