jamie oliver in new orleans

[johnnymarrsbars]

just watching this on 4od now while having breakfast and theres this little old woman teaching him how to cook gumbo..oliver asks if she wants him to chop an onion and she blatently has no idea who he is and says "ooh, you know how?!"

his face is priceless..looks well pissed off and says "yeah darlin, ive been cookin a while"


first laugh of the day

 

[Pickman's model]

a second and rather larger chuckle would involve his imminent and painful demise

 

[Fruitloop]

or his incorporation into said gumbo.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

is it just me or has every episode so far just consisted of him getting pissed and making a twat of himself.

 

[Pickman's model]

or his incorporation into said gumbo.

mass outbreak of food poisoning linked to cannibalism and disappearance of uk tv chef

 

[Pickman's model]

is it just me or has every episode so far just consisted of him getting pissed and making a twat of himself.

that's his life

 

[DRINK?]

I normally don't mind Jamie though his endless "brother" and "man" are hugely irritating and can see why people are anti the fat tongued mockney tw*t

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

now hes sat in a car stuffing his face on snickers, m&ms, crisps and doughnuts.

its like that episode of alan partridge with the toblerone

 

[nick h.]

I saw the cajun one last night - really absorbing. Especially the 11 year old girl being taught to shoot an alligator in the head with a pistol. There wasn't too much of Oliver in it, so it was possible to ignore him and treat it as a documentary.

 

[strung out]

it's fairly interesting as long as you pretend it's not a jamie oliver show about food, and take it as a light documentary on various different aspects of american culture and history.

 

[vauxhallmum]

I thought he was quite restrained considering that old lady was rude as you like to him

I didn't fancy the gumbo, though.

 

[kabbes]

I've found this particular series fascinating, actually. Like a travelogue with food.

I also thought that the gumbo woman was really fucking rude and Jamie was very restrained. He even gave her the credit later when the people eating his gumbo thought it was awesome, despite the fact that it really was all his own work.

 

[Onket]

That old woman was more of a dick than him, I also thought he did really well.

 

[twistedAM]

Have only seen the Wyoming one and it was pretty interesting, like, as someone says, a travelogue with some cooking in it. But still too much Oliver in it.

 

[Onket]

The New York one was good. That Colombian bloke who cooked for about 80 homeless people everyday after he'd been to work, for example.

Jamie Oliver is in it though, so there will always be cringy annoying bits.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I hate the way he calls people brother though, it makes me want to kill the tv in the face.

 

[kabbes]

He might be cringy and annoying when he calls people "brother", but he is very warm and people take to him quickly. This helps the documentary enormously. And he genuinely seems to be an incredible chef. People are generally pretty gobsmacked at how good his stuff takes. I would LOVE to have him cook me something!

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

He might be cringy and annoying when he calls people "brother", but he is very warm and people take to him quickly. This helps the documentary enormously. And he genuinely seems to be an incredible chef. People are generally pretty gobsmacked at how good his stuff takes. I would LOVE to have him cook me something!

my mums got his books and i've cooked a few of his recipes. everythings drenched in olive oil and tastes bland as fuck.

he's an entertaining tv presenter, definitely, but he is far, far from being an "incredible" chef. most of its basic student food.

 

[kabbes]

His recipes in his books <> his own cooking though.

Besides, I've made some of his recipes and found that they're pretty good, as they go. Maybe you're just not a very good cook

 

[beeboo]

my mums got his books and i've cooked a few of his recipes. everythings drenched in olive oil and tastes bland as fuck.

Bland - really? I tend to find his recipes are on the gutsy side in terms of flavour. Although they tend to be the kind of thing where quality of ingredients can make a big difference.

As for olive oil - well he's pretty heavily influenced by italian food, which isn't known for holding back on it. Just back from holiday in Italy and nearly fell off my seat in a restaurant watching a woman dress her salad - literally must have poured at least 100ml of olive oil over it.

 

[tarannau]

Johnny - we've been through this before. You cooking one recipe or two and making them badly is not the same as concluding thjat everything he scripts is 'drenched in olive oil and tastes bland as fuck'

I've eaten plenty out of the Oliver cookbooks - he was like a dinner party stable for many at one stage - and I can't say the food matches your description. I've also had decent experiences in Fifteen and his restaurants. Recipes are a guide, not a fucking rote learning tool - take some responsibilty for your own cooking and stop blaming others

Yes, he's a mockney annoyance, you can't dismiss his recipes quite as lazily.

 

[kabbes]

As an example, here's the sauce for his fish pie, IIRC:

fried onion & garlic + chopped carrot + cream + lemon + wholegrain mustard + english mustard + parsley

There's no reason why that would be bland.

 

[tarannau]

It's Johnny though. He can't be expected to taste and adjust seasoning for himself, reasoning that ingredients vary in age, quality and consistency. He's probably sending a stern letter off to Oliver's insurers right now, alleging that old fatlip mockney's ruined his meal and demanding a refund.

 

[dodgepot]

i didn't see last night's edition, but i've been watching this series and really enjoying it, and i quite like jamie oliver. comes across alright to me, looks like he's enjoying himself and getting on with people.

 

[kabbes]

For me, the Jamie of today is worlds apart from the Jamie that first appeared on our screens and annoyed the tits off us 10 years ago. but then, I'm about the same age he is. And when I think what I was like 10 years ago, it makes it a bit more understandable.

I quite like the 30-something Jamie. He's annoying at times, but who isn't? At least he is warm and somewhat human. He has real problems squaring what he selfishly wants to do with his professional life with his duties as a family man, but that isn't unusual. In the round, I have more time for him than I do for most TV personalities. Damning with faint praise, I know.

 

[DRINK?]

dreadful love rat.....allegedly

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I would LOVE to have him cook me something!

I'd like to show him how to make a proper goulash. I saw one where he roasted and called it a goulash.


I don't mind jamie, but he completley dissed my national dish and needs a good talking to.

THAT MONSTROSITY is NOT goulash!

 

[Gavin Bl]

I'm in agreement with the view that he's a good guy and a good chef, but sometimes a bit of a tit. 2 out of 3, etc..

 

[feldbach]

I normally don't mind Jamie though his endless "brother" and "man" are hugely irritating and can see why people are anti the fat tongued mockney tw*t

agreed, he needs to stop saying "brutha"

i'm ambivalent about Jamie...his earlier shows were interesting, his cookware is crap,
this new series is actually not bad. i saw the NYC episode - that was interesting..i find his wife more annoying

 

[Orang Utan]

i love his attitude and approach to cooking normally and was always puzzled by people dismissing him as a mockney when he was obviously just being himself, but he was a right cowardly insincere lying twat in this week's programme.