Not Just for the Cook-less
October 22nd 2008 10:49
Intrigued by Jamie Oliver's latest culinary campaign 'Jamie's Ministry of Food' screening on Network Ten, I purchased the book. If you're not familiar with his endeavour, it's basically all about getting people back into their kitchens cooking real food as opposed to living on takeaway and packaged meals. His urgency to make this happen is in response to the rising levels of obesity and the health and mortality issues that stem from this. He recogises that he cannot individually teach the population to cook, so the manifesto is to teach a group of people a recipe, who then commit to 'passing it on' to another group who do the same...and so on. This concept really struck a chord with me because dietary issues, particularly in children, is a topic my good friend P and I constantly discuss (over coffee and cake).
At first glance, you may think this is a manual on how to boil eggs and whip up a pucker spag bol (although both are there), but not so. This book contains a wealth of delicious recipes Jamie-style to get on the table fast. Even the old favourites are presented with a new spin that will re-inspire you to make them again.
The styling is groovy, images are great and most importantly it looks good in my kitchen.
Now just to clarify, I do not live on 10 packets of chips a day and I do prepare food from scratch most nights but I can see this book being covered in food splatters very quickly. What has occurred to me though, is although my family is served 'homemade' food on a regular basis, am I doing my bit to 'pass it on' to them?
So instead of sending them out to play to be 'called-when-dinner-is-ready or to set-the-table', maybe I'll spend a few nights as executive chef while my apprentices do the chopping.
More details about the mission and the book are available here
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