Recently, I bought three of Jamie Oliver‘s cookbooks because he was doing some wild demonstration on Facebook. He had mentioned one of his new books was Five Ingredients , Mediterranean Quick and Easy Food that definitely appealed to me. Only five? I think the Mediterranean looks more tasty but I'm still glad I bought both versions. The books are solid, heavy, four color, easy to keep open, and ever so entertaining. Definitely VALUE driven! A lot of bang for the buck and books that can withstand time.Once on Amazon, I ended up ordering three books of Jamie Oliver’s. I had a hard time picking between many of them so I splurged and bought three cool looking books written by Jamie Oliver. I’ve always adored Jamie since the first time I saw him in London a few decades ago and I noticed he worked very hard to keep the big networks away from owning him and fat cats that want to steal the profit off artists like Jamie, usually ending up owning the artist own catalog. I really admired him for not taking big money and keeping his focus on his own interest such as revamping the London school system food where he made global awareness that school food does not have to suck or cost more.When his books arrived I thumbed through a few of them and I realized quickly, Jamie Oliver does not write “just” cookbooks.He doesn’t just sell recipes, he sells entire lifestyles, purity, happiness, and the reader inadvertently learns how to handle that asparagus, or garlic, how to store it, and things we never really think much about. And he does not use very many words actually to get the point across.Just from the five minute quick and easy food book I learned he truly can take the most pathetic refrigerator of a bachelor or bachelorette that can contain only old Parmesan cheese from a party, mushrooms that have been sitting in the back of the fridge for a month, cloves of garlic that do not yet have a destination, and fresh sage from perhaps a garden whip them together, bake them for 30 minutes at 400 degrees and transform these ingredients, into a beautiful roasted mushroom garlic side dish!I am caring for a person that needs to eat 6000 calories a day. That is a challenge and I’m a busy author myself. But I love this person and he hast to eat 6000 cal a day which is almost like eating every hour on the hour. It was a stroke. They blew up his pituitary gland and for some reason his body metabolizes at the speed of light. He’s actually underweight because it’s just really hard to eat 6000 calories a day. Thank you, Oliver. I’ll be using your books basically exclusively to help my friend eat, eat and eat some more! Deborah Dolen ~ Author