Cookbook: Jamie Oliver’s Super Food – Family Classics

In the introduction to his latest book, Super Food – Family Classics, British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver writes, “Easy, super-tasty & packed with goodness. That’s what you guys told me you wanted from the recipes in a healthy family cookbook, and that’s exactly what I’ve delivered throughout these pages. I’ve basically taken a whole host of classic comfort food dishes and ultimate family favourites that I know you love, and cooked, rewritten, tested and edited them to make sure they fit bang into my super-food philosophy. What does that mean? Well, it guarantees that not only will you be eating exciting meals that will tickle your taste buds, are super-delicious and will fill you up, but every one of those meals is totally balanced and will help to fuel, revive, restore and energise you, too ...

“Just like in Everyday Super Food [2015], I’ve taken all the food photos, because that allowed me to be super-close to the recipes, interrogating and honing the ingredients, methods and techniques to be the absolute best they can. Backed up by a bumper section of health and wellbeing info at the back of the book, I want Super Food Family Classics to arm you with everything you and your family need to be the best you can be, and to live healthier, happier lives.”

Super Food – Family Classicsmay resemble one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop episodes (only with more enthu­siasm than the American actress and lifestyle guru) but as I read the book, it’s easy to imagine Oliver saying the words, having watched so many episodes of his cooking programmes.