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Jamie's Great Britain by Jamie Oliver (view source)
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It's over four hundred pages of, well, as the front of the book says ''over 130 reasons to love our food''. That's relatively few recipes padded out into a big book. Now that might not bother you if what you're wanting is a celebration of British food rather than a lot of recipes - perhaps something to take home as a memento of a visit - then the book stacks up well on that count. It scores less well if you're wanting to look in any depth at British food (try [[English Food by Jane Grigson]] for a book which has stood the test of time for many years and looks likely to continue to do so or [[New British Classics by Gary Rhodes]] if you regularly feed quite a large number of people).
If you've bought earlier books by Jamie then you should be aware that some of the recipes are repeated from earlier books - the one-pan breakfast as early as page 16 seems very familiar - and Kate and Wills's Wedding Pie seems to have been out before the big dayand I'm not entirely certain that I see Kate - er, sorry, Princess Katherine - tucking into beef, beer and pastry. This really is one of those books which you should look at before you buy if you think that you're likely to have the recipes already. But do you know what really disappointed me? Looking through the index I found an entry for ''Yorkshire Picnic'' with a page number for what seemed likely to be a recipe and a double-page spread of pictures. There's nothing there but pictures and a couple of sentences of text. We're not that skinny in these parts, you know!
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