Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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I do get a strange pleasure from things like getting my knives sharp and then very accurately cutting some vegetables and then very gradually peeling the skin off the outside of the clove of garlic - it's such a fantastic sensation. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. I make so much from scratch that sometimes I felt guilt for simply mixing bottle sauce and pasta for a meal. Celebrating the publication of the revised edition of English Wine, below are details of where you can come see Oz Clarke this autumn for a spot of wine tasting and a chat about the book.

Easy Recipes Any Idiot Can Make, arrived as a post-Christmas gift, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share my enthusiasm for it.They're telling me how to do it and then they start telling me how to say it and how to present it and I want to go 'look, f*** off, that's the bit I can do'. Sloshing back sancerre in Floydian style, May also likes to involve the camera-people as he attempts to learn the art of making a cooking show itself. But this book is perfect for the likes of me, when I do get around to trying some of the recipes myself. If you get them roughly right, you can guess a lot of them and you will come out with something edible.

One of the best meals I ate was a cosy dinner for two with Jeremy Clarkson when we were trying to break a world record reaching the North Pole in a motor vehicle.

Compared to other cookbooks, this one makes me feel like I could approach some more daunting UK dishes like boiled puddings and Spotted Dick, and that deserves praise. If, like James May, the sight of the kitchen strikes fear into your very heart and you can’t identify a spatula from a fish slice – this is the book for you. I do have a secret fondness that goes back to when we used to make Spam and beans when I was a teenager," he remembers.

He adds: "Television has got it completely wrong and cooking on television ought to be a waste of time but it's becoming ever more popular. Pavilion Books Commissioning Editor Cara Armstrong has acquired North-london based chef Hasan Semay’s (a. One of the standouts was a little place doing kebabs by the road in Jordan, and another kebab place at a market in Syria, and India is fantastic for that sort of thing. If, like James May, the sight of the kitchen strikes fear into your very heart and you can't identify a spatula from a fish slice - this is the book for you. In fact, the great thing about cooking is that it’s accessible — more so than driving supercars or collecting art.When I was a student in the 1980s, I tried to do a roast Sunday lunch but forgot to turn the oven on and we ended up eating it at 3am.

He’s a very good broadcaster, but he needs to be in a garage or cracking gags about Teslas and Lamborghinis with his amigos, not doing this flambéing lark, which, as far as he’s concerned, is clearly a load of old cook. I couldn't go anywhere or do any of the things I normally do to distract myself, like riding motorcycles and playing around and so on, so I sat at home and did this book. Heat a nonstick pan on a low heat, add the remaining oil and fry the burgers in batches for about 5 min on each side until golden. I love haute cuisine as much as the next food snob, but if I can find new ways to make Spam or alphabet soup work, then I am all for it.

My fears on egg poaching were presented in such hilarious fashion on the pages, that's I realized it was all ok. It used to be a camping food staple and we used to do camping a lot when I was a child, so it's partly sentimentality, plus Spam is a funny word.