Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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If, like James May, the sight of the kitchen strikes fear into your very heart and you can’t identify a spatula from a fish slice – this is the book for you. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. In each episode, May assures us of his ineptitude in the kitchen (“I can’t cook – and welcome to my cookery show”), assembles some ingredients to create a couple of functional meals (it is not really cooking, and I say this as someone who fails to reach even May’s level of competence at least three days out of every seven), drinking a bit of wine, and doling out a few personal and historical facts as he goes. Still, you get the sense that May will banter on, a boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into past glories. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.

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May’s kitchen shtick continues to be a mix of everyman bafflement and mild curiosity about more refined culinary techniques, only with a minor twist - May is now edging away from banter in the direction of practical advice, albeit offered without any real confidence. The parmesan grater he’s using is one he’s had since his student days (which suggests a greater degree of kitchen aptitude than pretended, but consistency of narrative is evidently not deemed a vital ingredient here).Celebrating the publication of the revised edition of English Wine, below are details of where you can come see Oz Clarke this autumn for a spot of wine tasting and a chat about the book.

James Oh Cook!: 60 easy recipes that any idiot can make by James

is a foolproof manual packed with practical information and delicious recipes for even the most basic of home cooks. This is not a fantasy recipe book for food fetishists, full of soft-focus pictures of improbable art food. While there are more Grand Tour episodes ahead, May has – alongside his newfound telly cheffing career – just bought "half a pub". This time round he is engaging in the culinary arts – barely – in James May: Oh Cook, the title a masterfully cunning play on his favoured expression when things go awry. He has, however, carried out some exceptionally high-speed driving (including taking a Bugatti Veyron to its top speed).Cooking show hosted by James May, providing a unique perspective on kitchen creations for those who don't know how to cook. Twist the ends of the parchment like a Christmas cracker and tie tightly with kitchen string, to seal the pudding inside. Bookplates are official labels which are signed by the author and then fixed to the title page of the book. The fact that audiences are now so sophisticated that to show them the inner workings as if it were a treat for children makes you look more out of touch than cutting edge, does not seem to have struck anyone. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.