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[QUOTE=Marinaw]I know there are loads of Jamie haters - he seems to wind up most of my male mates - but I really enjoyed the show last night. Thought it was very funny, more of a travel doc than a cookery show and great to see bits of the rougher parts of Palermo. What a terrible camp site!
Didn't see anyone shouting 'Good cooker' but I may have blinked and missed it. Can't wait for more..

M[/QUOTE]

Good cooker will be in Tuscany somewhere - sounds as though he is working his way up the country.

Was the camp site to the 'right' of the city and harbour, up near the line of hills/mountains?

That part of town did look very rough when I went through it on the bus to Agrigento.

What meal did he prepare on last night's show?

It certainly looked near mountains but don't know whether it was left or right. Palermo looked huge - much bigger city than I had imagined and very rough indeed in parts, he looked genuinely quite unnnerved.
He cooked some grilled fish with loads of dill and fennel trying to get the locals to try something different - had to give it away but in true good telly styley of course won them over in the end..
I think he is working his way up Italy - its very reminiscent of a book I read this summer by Matthew Fort travelling by Vesta up Italy but with a lot more humour.

M

Hello Marinaw,
just wanted to say that I enjoyed the show, although the first half was a little chaotic. What with Jamie saying goodbye to the missus and kids, that got a bit emotional and then having a problem with the camper van!! All I can say is that he has a lot of guts to just take off to Italy, but he seems a very honest and gutsy guy. I like the way that his cooking is kept quite simple and down to earth (can't be doing with all this fancy stuff) :p
Am looking forward to next week's episode and the fact that he will be in a different part of Italy (lucky guy!)
Have you bought the cookery book yet? I have seen it advertised in my book club for £9.99, the cheapest price yet!!
Ciao
Francesca

I usually avoid anything with Jamie Oliver in but the fact that he's in Italy made me watch. I actually enjoyed the programme and am looking forward to the next one.

We enjoyed it but that was more because it was set in Italy than because it was about Jamie's cooking.Quite impressed with his ½ûÂþÌìÌà and the real interest shown by the locals in the stuff he was cooking.Can't believe he is doing all his own driving and sleeping in the van.

Don't think I ever watched his cooking series but this obviously had to be a 'must see' in our household!!

I also enjoyed the way he started talking in broken ½ûÂþÌìÌà & seemed to get by very well! We were shocked at the camp site and the poverty of the area is strikingly obvious.

but I liked it when he managed to convince the locals with his fancy stuff - proving that the taste of the freshly caught fish isn't necessarily spoilt when you add a few herbs... quite funny! :)

Can't wait for next week... oh, and yes, the book is on the list of things to get. It's around £10 at Asda too....

Stephanie

[QUOTE=Robert]We enjoyed it but that was more because it was set in Italy than because it was about Jamie's cooking.Quite impressed with his ½ûÂþÌìÌà and the real interest shown by the locals in the stuff he was cooking.Can't believe he is doing all his own driving and sleeping in the van.[/QUOTE]

If anyone believes he did all the driving - or sleeps in the van they must want their bumps feeling!

This 'spontaneous trip' [remember the bit where he tells his staff he's going away the next week] was planned months in advance, and I bet they booked the hotels whilst they were planning it. [One TV critic has offered £1000 to charity if they prove he only slept in the van]

I wish they'd spend more time on the cooking, and less on him poncing about in the van - there must have been about 5 minutes cooking in the whole programme.

Mind you - my wife thinks he slobbers over his food whilst he cooks it - but she's watching the programme for the scenery and people - not for Oliver.

I was more interested why the 2 women were bashing up the young man in the market - what was going on there?

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I was more interested why the 2 women were bashing up the young man in the market - what was going on there?[/QUOTE]

LOL! We were in stitches over that one! Very intriguing!! :D

Hmmm what I was wondering when watching was how 'positive' they all were after he'd cooked his fish.... after initially most decidedly saying 'no way' ... was this another famous telly production setup or did they REALLY turn out to be impressed??

BTW, never thought he was driving all the way on his own .... most of us know how gruelling long distance travel is, and even more so in an uncomfortable noisy van!! Of course he has his little helpers ... ;)

Still, it's good fun to watch... not him, the scenery...

S