Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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The weird thing about making food on the TV - I suppose it's also true of driving cars on TV - but the two things that are so vital to your appreciation of food are smelling it and tasting it, and none of those come across on television. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Five years ago people were saying 'oh, we can't have another cooking show, that's been exhausted' but it turns out it hasn't, because even I can do one. Easy Recipes That Any Idiot Can Make, the presence of publishers and TV executives on set was an added pressure for The Grand Tour presenter, affectionately dubbed Captain Slow.Deliberately, defiantly, overwhelmingly low-wattage May insouciantly shows how easy it is to make decent grub with bonus asides on Fellini, Philip Larkin and William Blake, which you certainly don’t get with The Hairy Bikers. is a foolproof manual packed with practical information and delicious recipes for even the most basic of home cooks.

May’s kitchen shtick continues to be a mix of everyman bafflement and mild curiosity about more refined culinary techniques, only with a minor twist – May is now edging away from banter in the direction of practical advice, albeit offered without any real confidence. This was a week that urgently needed light relief, so cometh the hour, cometh the James May, erstwhile Top Gear amigo, the id to Richard Hammond’s ego (with no prizes for guessing who the super-ego might be in this formulation). Admittedly, watching the series back, he says he comes across "quite bad tempered, which I never am normally. When I present car shows we often get criticised for driving around in Lamborghinis and Ferraris but when you think about it, most cooking shows are no different.He adds: "Television has got it completely wrong and cooking on television ought to be a waste of time but it's becoming ever more popular. If you get them roughly right, you can guess a lot of them and you will come out with something edible. Having smashed avocado and samphire is a privilege bought on millions of cans of luncheon meat and Princes ham. Wrap the roly poly in the baking parchment, making a long pleat in the paper to allow the pudding to expand as it cooks.