I enjoyed reading this cookbook and the photographs are beautiful....but I'm not sure I'd make any of the recipes.

I remember trying one ...something like spaghetti cakes.

As a fan of cookbooks and italian food in particular I definately would recommend this book to friends and family. I use this all of the time, even just as inspiration. Jamies pizza dough recipe has become a staple in my household and paired with a pizza stone it creates a authemtic italian pizza experience! Our household is vegetarian and although there are many meat dishes in this book I find it gets more use than some of my veggie books. I love reading this and thinking of ways I can adapt a meal to make it vegetarian. If you like italian food buy this!

I like Jamie's Italian cooking. He has good recipes and quick to make. It is the sort of cooking I like and can eat every day. Watching him on telly gets a little scary though: I can't believe the amount of olive oil he uses when he is cooking, he clearly over uses it.

My husband is the capo chef in this house, so my information is only second hand, but he cooked out of this book for about a month straight and had a blast. Plus, the baby loves the cover, pointing to it often saying, "spaghetti and wine tonight, mama?"

This book is as passionate as the Italians are about their food. The images make your mouth water and the recipes themselves are dead easy. This is the book for an Italian feast.

Love the journey of this book. Hooked me on Oliver and the narrative driven cookbook. I love a good story! The pizza dough recipe is now a home standard.

Yummy!

Eat it all.

Not just a cookbook but a work of art and a fantastic travel book. I want to go where Jamie went and see the things he saw and people he met on this journey. A beautiful book to sit and sip wine to.

This book focuses on rustic and authentic Italian food. it's one of my favorites!

My not-so-secret passion is cooking, and I can while away countless hours leafing through a good cookbook, preferably one with lots of Pavlovish photos. My favourite? Jamie Oliver’s Italy. Filled with fabulous photographs of the man grilling rabbit, lamb, and quail over smoldering vine clippings and olive wood, the makings of a rustic kitchen stuffed in a beat-up vintage Coleman cooler…mmm. This book speaks to a simpler way of life that holds great appeal to me.