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River Cottage Collection

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from: Acorn Media

September 10, 2007
This series is amazing, I first watched an episode of River Cottage on Sky, was at home with a friend zapping through numerous channels and landed on this, my friend insisted it was a brilliant TV show and we should watch the episode.

My friend is not into cooking that much so it got me interested!

Anyhow the stories, the recipes and the adventure got me hooked, i had to buy them.

I have watched the two first seasons and i love it, kind of makes me dream of a house in the coutryside, although i guess a lot of aspects of self-sufficiency are not covered he looks at the food side of things with a lot of attention.

The only negative i have about his show is that he uses railway sleepers in ... Read More:

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Jamie Oliver - Jamie At Home

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by: Jamie Oliver

October 29, 2007
I thoroughly enjoy Jamie's candid style, and above all, his desire to create awesome meals from the highest quality ingredients, mostly from his own gardens. My wife and I aren't really `cooking show' fans, but we find ourselves really succumbed by Jamie's personality and atmosphere. If anyone wants to learn how to make healthy and delicious food in an agrarian way, this is my number-one recommendation. Without sounding too much like a fan-boy, I would like to see more of his farm and meet Brian, Jamie's gardener, some day. It'll probably never happen, but I believe he would be a real joy to meet and speak with. I love the way he uses raised beds for most of the vegetables grown. In other words, there is more to learn from this series than just the ... Read More:

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River Cottage - Spring [2008]

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from: 4dvd

October 27, 2008
I thoroughly enjoy Jamie's candid style, and above all, his desire to create awesome meals from the highest quality ingredients, mostly from his own gardens. My wife and I aren't really `cooking show' fans, but we find ourselves really succumbed by Jamie's personality and atmosphere. If anyone wants to learn how to make healthy and delicious food in an agrarian way, this is my number-one recommendation. Without sounding too much like a fan-boy, I would like to see more of his farm and meet Brian, Jamie's gardener, some day. It'll probably never happen, but I believe he would be a real joy to meet and speak with. I love the way he uses raised beds for most of the vegetables grown. In other words, there is more to learn from this series than just the ... Read More:

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Rick Stein's French Odyssey : Complete BBC Series

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starring: Rick Stein

October 01, 2007
Having spent numerous holidays in the Languedoc, I really enjoyed this series. The food, the commentary, the scenery and the filming were all excellent.

There were occasional points where the sequence of places visited got slightly out of sequence, and it was a pity we kept on having to return to the same canal side kitchen, for several of the cooking shots, even though the barge had moved on to completely different areas. But this minor issue was more than offset for me, by the detour down the Canal de la Robine to Narbonne.

Hopefully looking at the food on your TV sceen will satisfy you, because eating all of the great dishes that Rick prepared, would certainly add a few inches to the waist line.

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Jamie Oliver - Jamie At Home - Series 2 - Summer Recipes [2007]

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by: Jamie at Home

March 03, 2008
... if you've already got the first DVD of this series, as it already has the recipes shown in this DVD! Amazon should specify this in the description of the product, and not have customers buy in effect the same DVD twice

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Jamie Oliver - Jamie At Home - Series 2 Vol. 2 - Winter Recipes [2007]

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by: Jamie at Home

September 08, 2008
I thoroughly enjoy Jamie's candid style, and above all, his desire to create awesome meals from the highest quality ingredients, mostly from his own gardens. My wife and I aren't really `cooking show' fans, but we find ourselves really succumbed by Jamie's personality and atmosphere. If anyone wants to learn how to make healthy and delicious food in an agrarian way, this is my number-one recommendation. Without sounding too much like a fan-boy, I would like to see more of his farm and meet Brian, Jamie's gardener, some day. It'll probably never happen, but I believe he would be a real joy to meet and speak with. I love the way he uses raised beds for most of the vegetables grown. In other words, there is more to learn from this series than just the food being ... Read More:

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Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure: Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set [2006]

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starring: James May, Oz Clarke

March 03, 2008
A very funny and highly entertaining program of well known wine expert
OZ Clarke and Jamas May known form Top Gear, who together travels on a
wine adventure. James knows nothing about wine, but have chosen the car
for the adventure (of course an English jaguar) and is like a rebel
boarder school boy taught by the slightly older and more distinguished
Oz Clarke, who continuously tries to learn James about the different
wines and the impressions they make. It all turns into a lot of very
entertaining and very funny situations, filled with humour, and there
is a lot to learn and view, both from the more experienced and newcomer
to wine tasting, on this fantastic wine adventure filled taste -and
sense impressions.

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Jamie's Christmas

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starring: Jamie Oliver

December 04, 2006
This is a fantastic dvd - everything simplified and explained in detail - starting with the preparation on Christmas Eve and then the big day itself but the wonderful added bonus is that you can you these receipes all year round - the herb butters, cooking veg, making stuffing - so this is a DVD not only for Christmas - buy it.

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Hairy Bikers Cookbook : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2

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starring: David Myers, Simon King

May 15, 2006
I love these cheeky lads, who always look to be having a great time wherever they go.

Yet another very watchable cookery/travel series from which you learn lots about both the dishes and the places Dave and Si visit.

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Two Fat Ladies - Complete Tribute [1996]

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by: Two Fat Ladies

October 08, 2007
Enjoyed the set immensely. These two ladies were actually responsible for my interest in cookery from the moment I saw them on TV, what and how they cooked was exactly how I've always imagined things should be in the kitchen, and I was so relieved to see that it is actually ok to use butter, full cream, lard, game when other chefs were treading ever so carefully pandreing to the PC idea of cooking.Love it!