Book excerpt: 'Jamie should be given the Victoria Cross' The Times With over 100 delicious recipes, Jamie shows that anyone can learn to cook beautiful food based on simple principles and techniques. Divided into chapters on different techniques: Cracking Salads, Cooking without Heat, Poaching & Boiling, Steaming & Cooking in the Bag, Stewing & Braising, Frying, Roasting, Pot-roasting & Pan-roasting, Grilling & Chargrilling and Baking & Sweet Things, you'll soon be cooking up a storm. Jamie also gives you advice on kitchen kit and shopping tips. Simple but tasty recipes include: · Warm SALAD of ROASTED SQUASH, PROSCIUTTO and PECORINO · CITRUS-SEARED TUNA with CRISPY NOODLES, HERBS and CHILLI · PAPPARDELLE PASTA with AMAZING SLOW COOKED MEAT · LEBANESE LEMON CHICKEN · BAILEYS and BANANA BREAD & BUTTER PUDDING 'Jamie offers lots of his chunky, hunky dishes for feeding the hungry, and lathers the whole lot with ladlefuls of encouragement' Daily Telegraph ___________ Celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Naked Chef Penguin are re-releasing Jamie's first five cookbooks as beautiful Hardback Anniversary Editions - an essential for every kitchen. The Naked Chef The Return of the Naked Chef Happy Days with the Naked Chef Jamie's Kitchen Jamie's Dinners '20 years on . . . Does it stand the test of my kitchen? The answer is a resounding yes. Jamie's genius is in creating maximum flavour from quick, easy-to-follow recipes . . . It hasn't dated at all' Daily Telegraph on The Naked Chef _____________