Don't get me wrong now.. I love Jamie Oliver ! I have a book called the Naked Chef...actually "The Naked Chef,An Aphrodisiac Cookbook" Copywrite 1971 By Billie Young. Library of Congress Catalog Congress Card #LC 70-167722. Is the use of this name by Jamie ethical and legal ? I asked this a few years ago and never received an answer. I bought this book at a yard sale. I don't think Jamie was even in this world when this was written. It clearly states that "no part of this book can be reproduced or written without the written permission. Did you have to obtain permission ? or did this just slip by ? I have a few ... maybe 550 cookbooks or so and thought that this was a first for me. . How to go about catagorizing her book and Jamie's.

For some reason cookery shows have stopped being simply about good food and useful recipes and have started being used as a platform for peddling lifestyles and self-absorbed smug personalities (Think of Nigella Lawson and Tamasin Day-Lewis with their irritatingly upper-middle class attitudes to contemporary family life, where all the ingredients come from organic farms in the midlands and the 'local shop' is Harrod's food hall - 'I don't have much time in the evenings so it'll just be duck magrets in pomegranate molasses and saffron crab tartlets'). Jamie Oliver's manifesto is to make cookery hip and accessible in a sanitized way. Supposedly he's the boy every mother would want as their son, the guy the girls find cute and the lad the blokes can relate to enough to kindle an interest in the kitchen. In fact he's pretty much nothing more than an annoying pratt with a line in pseudo-cockney banter that grates rather than endeares. The recipes are fine, with his pedigree in restaraunt work I'd expect nothing less, but it's almost impossible to sit through the programmes due to the sheer embarrassment of being a member of the same species. Another negative aspect of the show is the directors prediction for oh-so-fashionable wonky cameraangles and shot's straight out of 'Sam Raimi's guide to aspiring film school students'. Instant migraine, just add aggravating background music and bits about his friends and family. WHO CARES ABOUT THESE PEOPLE?Incidentally, he writes the books in exactly the same way that he talks. I never thought I'd read a recipe that referred to a chicken as 'a great blooming geezer of a bird'.

Jamie Oliver is the most annoying man on UK TV. Five minutes of this show and you realise why he won that vote. The camera work is fast and furious, in the third seres the BBC had to add the same epilepsy warning that they use for Sci/Fi shows. if Delia is a god then Oliver is the Anti Christ!

Jamie Oliver presents the recipes that he is using in a way that makes them easy to follow. The food is always great too. What is so good about this show is that we are not watching a professional chef make food that we as "normal" cooks, would not be able to make. Jamie actually puts a plot to his shows, which usually consists of him making food for a party or for friends. But hey, when we honestly get in the kitchen and really start cooking, those are the two main reasons we start cooking in the first place. So, if you like to watch cooking shows and you get the FOOD NETWORK, then turn this show on!