Jamie Oliver in Munich - book signing event

Jamie Oliver will be in town this Friday, 20th January 2006, to sign copies of his latest book, "Genial Italienisch" (Jamie's Italy) at Hugendubel on Marienplatz, starting at 4pm. No word on how long it will last into the evening. They are selling the German edition for €24.90, but the English edition is only €19.90. As the original British price on it is 19.99 GBP, it seems like a good deal to me.

I happen to like his recipes, and even if this may bring scorn upon my head, I hope to make it to get my books signed.

I watched him in English recently and still think he's a complete condescending idiot. And he has the first English accent I don't like. As he was born in Essex and grew up in Cambridge, I guess maybe it's him more than the accent...

I bet that by 18:00 Don has him roastin' on a spit with an apple in his gob.

I like him and his show, differences in us make the world go round.

Showem- didn't you cook us a meal out of one of his books? It was a very nice meal!

I think he is damn sexy

He's a fine cook but a right old bell-end. Period.

Can you take his book into the shop if you already have it, to get it signed? Hope so, he's great!
Btw, the book is 9.99 stlg on EUR 15.99 at http://www.play.com with no extra p&p to pay.

he may have a kinda annoying accent but he really is an amazing cook and school dinners campaign, ive gotta give him major respect for, ill be going down and getting a copy signed and hopefully have a little chat with him

Info on H.D. website which gives no extra info to what was posted here, but I thought I'd post it anyway

So, do I have to buy his new book from H.D. in order to get a book signed? I've never been to a book signing before so I don't know how it works. Hmm a friend of mine works at that H.D. Think I'll ask her for a favour

Don't know UA. I bought mine today and will bring the receipt.

I'll phone tomorrow

It's not so much the accent as the hand-held camera that puts me off. Makes me queasy and I don't want to eat the great food any more. BTW, it's much worse in German, the pauses are in the wrong places in the sync.

Have to agree with Gen here..

Poke him in the eye for us!

G

He's posh Essex, common Essex are better shags innit.

I like his show, but I saw one recently where he was driving around in some rich yacht-owner's Maserati and squealing the tires, which was a bit pretentious. The one thing about him that really bugs me is how he always talks through his tongue.

A.K.A. Fat tongued wanker sysndrome

I did not like Oliver in his first few TV series. All those bloody annoying shots of him prick whittling about on a crap scooter, with generic indie crap playing in the background, or sliding down his banisters alot.

The restuarant and series "Fifteen" simply annoyed me as a concept.

School dinners campaign was fantastic. He rocketed in my esteem.

Last series, was where he stumbled around Italy (VW camper of course, poncy twat. He can blatantly afford a decent set of wheels, massive huge mobile home thing equipped with loads of gadgets perhpas, but no, he has to have something shit and iconic). The crap vehicle aside though, it was a good series, and he showed some fucking serious balls to cook some of the stuff he did, for the people he did. Most stuff he did was not even vaguely complicated, but the Italians were a real bunch of arrogant arseholes. "Ooooh, you boiled pasta in a pan with the handle facing north, not south! " They were seriously difficult, and it actually made the italians drop alot in my food esteem. You often hear italians moaning about french food (same was people now moan about CHelsea FC - people often react badly to overwhelming superiority) and they always suggest that french food is far too much about form and technique, whereas italian food is more 'honest' with a focus on ingredients. From what I saw on this series though, it was not always the taste of a particular ingredient that mattered, but whether or not it came from the "right" place. It was OTT to say the least, and you got the impression he'd never be able to impress these italians because they simply had zero respect for his cooking.
When Floyd did the series "Floyd on France", people had no respect for his cooking, but it was no surprise, because the bloke simply has almost no cooking talent atall, and consistently screwed up everything he tried to cook. Jamie Oliver clearly does understand food, but he was banging his head against a brick wall trying to cook in Italy, where the pinnacle of food achievements over the years was to steal noodles from china, and make them into stupid bow shapes.

It's called having a slight lisp, IPJ!

the book is available in word format on the interwebby thing FOR FREE - perhaps you should JO to sign a few sheets of paper

pm me if you want a 'preview' link...

Nah, I like the big glossy pictures in a nice book

@dr: Gotta respect a man who can change his mind about something he feels so passionately about. I guess I'm lucky in that I have never seen JO's show--only cooked from his books. And I gotta say, they generally have the right feel--I could do without some of the natter, but the same thing's true about my go-to Bible of all things bread, which, once you've worked your way through the pretense and the bullshit, has a rock solid set of fundamentals from which to build. Same with Jamie's recipes: you can fancy them up or dumb them down, but the results are consistently on the positive side of edible.

What I wouldn't do for some fresh figs and ricotta cheese drizzled in honey for Sunday brekkie right about now. One of the simplest breakfasts I know how to make...and one of my faves. It ain't exactly cooking, granted, but when one comes across a dish like that, it gives one a better feel for how the flavors work together. I like the books for that, if nothing else. Can't say anything about the TV program...apparently, I'm better off for not having seen it.

Has anybody got this book?
Is it any good?

I'm quite tempted, actually. I haven't got a decent italian cookbook.

oh come on he isnt that bad, and i saw a couple of the tv series and it was interesting, more of a traveling diary and explorartion of italian food.

I scanned through it at Xmas - it's pretty good actually.

I always thought Jamie Oliver was a twat until I saw Ainsley "tosspot" Harriet. He out twatted JO, and coincidently is one person who I'd like to twat with a heavy, hot frying pan.

I got the book for Christmas. I prefer it to his last one but probably because I cook a lot more Italian and Mediterranean. So far I like it and the pictures of Italy/food/markets etc really make you want to cook.

does anyone have a snipers riffle that i could borrow for this event?

Apparently Jamie is not coming after all. What a shame :´-(

where did you get this info...? if he is coming i need to replan my friday, and ring my brother-in-law who is a JO fan.

It's still listed on the Hugendubel website.

can you give me a link where this is mentioned? thanks!

@ Dragon yeah that Ainsley Herriot's a right tosser isn't he! never effing shuts up!

http://www.hugendubel.de/default.aspx?info...65-f77953796ffb

Click...
It's the first event listed

thanks!!!

why doesn't someone who cares call and ask? who knows how quick they update the website at hoogiedoobie. I still think he's condescending.

I just did... It is still on.

Oi Moonboot - read the whole thread; I posted that link yesterday dizzy thing!

I'm too busy saving the world!

Har har

I just rang HD as well, to ask if you have to buy the book there in order to get it signed, or if you can just bring his book with you if you already have it, and the guy said 'es spricht in prinzip nichts dagegen'.. we can try it out and show the person at the front that we're bringing it in to the shop, so that they know in case you're checked when leaving the shop.

opps!!!

Sorry folks - my memory failed - I have a link/copy of JO's NEW book JO's Naked Chef II if thats still of interest!

PM me pls!

the real question here is

Will he turn up down at The Arc and try out a Hazza meat pie?

Well I have only "heard" Jamie in dubbed German which is a bit strange, but you get used to anything if you don't have a choice . I have to say I loved the Italy series. Particularly where he helps some monks get their famous but no longer existant herb garden back in business, and ironically teaches them how to cook Italian food!.

Thanks for the tip on the book signing. I have been trying to decide if I really need another cookbook, but I think if he is signing it then I will pop along.

40 mins to go!!

I just got an sms from Showem, and apparently there's a huge great queue. So if you want your book signing, then you'd best get your skates on.

I told Scogs not to go, but nooooo - off he goes to Theatinerstrasse. Bet the line starts somewhere around there anyway.

Dream on, when I got there at 4pm, they had stopped people from going up above the first floor. The place was rammed full!

Poots

I was the second last person to get my books signed, I couldn't believe my luck. I had been lining up since around 3:30pm.

He seemed very personable and looked honestly pleased when I complimented him on the school lunch program. Struck me as being the nice guy he comes across as in his books and the few shows I've seen.

I got there at 3 and made it to the 6th floor straight away. After a 90 minute wait and getting to know all the people around me in the queue, I finally met the man himself. He asked how I was, I said "good thanks" in English and then he said "hey are you Australian!". Not bad after saying only two words :-) He was chatty and humourous. Totally down to earth. I felt sorry for him though with 6 floors of queue waiting behind me. God know how he keeps signing without his hand seizing up. Looking forward to trying out some of those recipes.

He didn't get through 6 floors of queue. He got through 1 and half. Everyone on the top floor and about a third of us on the fifth floor. Signed for about 80 minutes I'd guess.

Yeah, I arrived when Poots did, and we were turned away; they weren't letting anymore people in!

The ex went down. Said he wasn't as good looking in real life as on the telly and a bit if a ginger!