Jamie's Dinners is like no other cookbook you've ever picked up. Next to your oven, it's the single most vital element you could add to your kitchen. Why? Because by taking home Jamie's Dinners. You're not just getting over 120 superb new recipes – you're making a choice.

This book isn't about creating restaurant food, It's about giving you quality options for the way you and your family live now. Most of the recipes use ingredients you can buy in any high street, and you'll find accessible, affordable new ideas for all the old favourites – soups, salads, pasta, meat, fish, desserts, and creative veg- alongside some truly ground- breaking stuff. For example, there's a whole chapter on the not-so-humble sarnie. There a genius called Family Tree, showing you how, by mastering one core principle, you can expand your repertoire as a cook and stary thinking about food in a whole new way. There's also The Top Ten: the best recipes for the ten favourite meals in the whole as voted for by thousands of thousands of people globally on Jamie's website. You'll also find tips on the best way to lay out your kitchen.

Jamie's Dinners is the people's cookbook. Everything you'll ever need to know to feed yourself and yourself and your family properly for life. What could be more important than that?

 

JAMIE OLICER started cooking at his parents' parents' pub the Cricketers, in Clavering Essex, at the age of eight ,and has since worked with some of the world's top chefs. He is now running Fifteen, one of the best restaurants in London and the subject of the Channel Four television series Jamie's Kitchen.

Jamie has written for The Times, as well as for GQ and Marie Claire magazines. He currently writes for Delicious magazine in the UK and Australia.

He also started, and continues to be involved with the charity Cheeky Chops, which provides training and mentoring for disadvantaged young people – allowing them to follow their dreams and become chefs.

Jamie Lives in London with his wife, Jools, and their daughters, Poppy and Daisy.