Entries tagged with 'Jamie Oliver'
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Looks like Jamie Oliver's dinner for the 30 world leaders at the G20 summit went over well. Oliver cooked the meal along with his students from Fifteen. On his blog he says: I was well chuffed with the food and we worked out that if you were to serve the whole three courses at home then it would come in at around £11 a head. I felt that it was really important to write a menu that was not indulgent. The food was homely and proved that you can serve very humble food in the most opulent of places. I wanted to prove that you really don’t have to spend loads of money to serve a very special meal....
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The Guardian Over at the Guardian's Word of Mouth blog, Matthew Fort rallies the proletariat with an ode to Jamie Oliver. "In most other civilised counties, everyone feels as if they own their food culture. Only in Britain has it been a weapon in class warfare.” Of the alleged schism created when the well-heeled write about food, Fort states, "Ever since the sainted Elizabeth David put pen to paper, and even before, food was used as a form of social exclusion rather than something that should be accessible to everybody." But Oliver is an agent of change. Fort champions Oliver as a hero of the masses, saying, "He didn’t go to university and he doesn’t treat food as the...
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Words by Michele Humes | If you're already a fan of Jamie Oliver's, you'll adore Jamie at Home, his most lavish book yet. If, however, his laddish, larger-than-life demeanor rubs you the wrong way, there's a chance you'll struggle to get through his latest offering. As delicious as Oliver's recipes sound (Indian carrot and crispy lamb salad, anyone?), they're all transcribed in his playful, relentlessly wordy voice--a voice that turns what might have been three lines' worth of basic instructions into a spoken word poem of two paragraphs. If you can overlook a tone that borders on the twee, you'll find a really beautiful book, lushly illustrated and printed on weighty stock. The recipes are arranged by season and flanked...
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The Guardian's Word of Mouth blog reports that Jamie Oliver is launching his own food rag. Jamie Magazine hits WHSmith newsstands and stores in the UK on Thursday. "Oliver takes many of the magazine's photographs himself, and copy is packaged in Jamie's trademark 'alright geezer' style, a 'no bullshit' here, a comparison of a flavour to an 'acid-house party rave' there—although there are also more worthy pages on the politics of tipping."...
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"The Naked Chef" has a new video game called What’s Cooking? and it offers something Cooking Mama lacks—100 real recipes. Each one is by Oliver, and comes with an image of the completed dish, an ingredient list, step-by-step instructions, and Oliver's additional comments. Related: 'Cooking Mama: World Kitchen' Preview...
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From an interview in the Independent: "He is a brilliant cook. But his restaurants are lacklustre, I'm told. I don't know. I don't eat in them. I don't want to risk being poisoned." One of Britain's most outspoken cooks, Dickson Wright has long been a critic of Oliver. Sidenote: Dickson Wright's full name is Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright....
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Are we surprised that celebrity chefs aren't dutifully spending sweaty nights in their restaurant kitchens? The Telegraph investigates the presence of celebrity chefs in their restaurants' kitchens and bemoans, "celebrity chefs feel no compunction charging us top rates for the work of an underling." They liken absentee chefs to a tribute band playing "as stand-ins for the Rolling Stones." The Telegraph set out to discover which rock star chefs might be found yielding a knife or stirring a sauce. The verdict: none. Jamie Oliver doesn't actually cook at Jamie's Italian in Oxford; Heston Blumenthal is nowhere to be found at his Berkshire spot, Fat Duck; and Gordon Ramsay's job description at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay entails overseeing the menu and visiting...
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The UK Times reports that Jamie Oliver, while making a Channel 4 series in the town of Rotherham, England, said he was shocked by how few men can cook. He suggested that women should refrain from sex with their husbands or boyfriends to punish them if they refuse to cook: “Men are driven by sex... So the best way for women to get their men into the kitchen would be to stop having sex with them until they start to cook.”...
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This week's Cook the Book volume is Jamie Oliver's Cook with Jamie. I've admired Oliver's work over the years; I mean, what's not to like? Not only is he a good cook, he places education and betterment at the heart of his mission, whether it's through his Fifteen foundation and restaurant or his attempt to bring better school lunches to Britain's kids. Cook with Jamie carries on that tradition. And even though it's Oliver's seventh book, it's the one he says he feels he should have written first, since it's a "basics" book. It's textbooklike in size and heft, with beautiful photographs and handsome type design—so much so that you'd almost feel bad about staining the pages as you cook...
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Across the pond, celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackle the issues of animal welfare and "explore the horrors of intensive chicken farming" through the medium they know best: TV programs....
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