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@matthijs: “Jamie, on the other hand, is not doing anything particularly difficult”

Well, yes. Except for the fact that a skilled cook (me) and a normal person had trouble following the recipe. And it contained ingredients that were nigh-on impossible to get, and implements not usually found in a normal kitchen (the pans depicted in the episode were the largest ones available in the normal kitchen used for filming). And it took three and a half hours to make food that was, at best, average. And that’s without getting into the irritating mannerisms or the questionable politics of the celebrity in question.

But if you ignore all of those things, then yes, the worst we can do is complain about pasta pans, and you’re absolutely right.

We set out to see if a celebrity-chef cookbook could provide a normal person in a normal kitchen with the information they needed to make celebrity-chef food. Jamie’s book failed rather miserably. I call that a conclusion, and the conclusion is “meh”.