Found many hopefully delicious recipes. A must own book b/c there were so many recipes I found I wanted to try.

favourite one of the lot

I have dozens of cookbooks. While I often use the Internet to find recipes in a hurry, I find that these cookbooks are the ones I turn to just for his comments about food. His enthusiasm for food is contagious. I love that he tries to make you think about where your food is coming from and how it is prepared. And all of the recipes I've tried in this book are delicious and not too difficult.

Second book I cooked my way through.

It's a cute cookbook, quite simple, the meals are easy and quick. I tried some recipes like the Ultimate Burger and Chips and Pasta Bianco, and many other pasta dishes, I want to try making the tarts and the fish dishes as well.

Probably the best cookbook we've ever used!

You can feel his passion for good food on every page. Not just a list of recipes, but why he chose every dish in the book and how he likes to eat it.

Oliver's energy and enthusiasm about food burns on the page--he tries new things, finds out new things, is constantly learning. I love the quickness to these meals--there's a whole section of gorgeous five-minute meals.

Politically, I'm totally behind Oliver. I think that people need to rethink their relationship to food, and they need to learn how to cook. I don't know how you can be in control of your health or your impact on the environment if you can't control food, if you are a slave to prepared food and the microwave and take-out.

I love his focus on creating delicious, fresh vegetable dishes and salads. This is, actually, revolutionary. The idea that vegetables are delicious--was anyone told this as a child? He's innovative, uses herbs and spices, serves beets raw (they are fantastic), serves oranges roasted (also fantastic), and reinvents how we should consider this element of a meal.

And--this idea that you can cook a fantastic meal in five minutes--another revolutionary idea. I love this move towards simple preps. Cooking doesn't have to take an hour, even though sometimes it does, and I find it very pleasurable. But for everyone who says that they don't have time to cook...

(Not mentioned in the book, but related, is Oliver's incredible effort to overhaul school lunches--this takes a kind of Herculean effort, but it's essential. How do you make someone hate vegetables? Feed them canned peas in oily gray water.)

I wonder if some people brush him off as some young dude racing around throwing things on the floor. He may be young, and he may be funny and dramatic and more casual than other chefs, but he's the real thing, and more brave than most food people, and trying to have a real impact on our relationship with food. And I think he's the one to do it--such love and enthusiasm and endless energy. Bravo!

This is probably Jamie Oliver's best, most useful and accessible book. It's a fantastic reference full of original tips and fresh ingredients. His white sauce shortcut (creme fraiche and anchovies) is ingenious.

Very unlike the way we eat at home, unfortunately. Not the lifesaver I counted on.

wasn't full of my taste so just 3 stars...didn't find too much recipes on which I could say to me I'll definitely want to cook this!
Was a little disappointment for me.

I use this cookbook often and have not been disappointed yet with the great recipes! Each one I've tried has become a favorite.