Saucy! Jamie admits he fills his cookbooks with innuendo
AS the Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver was always serving up a bit of cheek. Now the TV chef has revealed he’s been secretly spicing up his recipe books with sauce for years.
The 42-year-old made the admission during a recent TV appearance. He said: ‘To be honest I have done pervy recipes. I write a couple of naughty ones in each book.’
Oliver’s innuendo, however, is perhaps less subtle than the sprinklings of ‘soggy bottoms’ beloved by the judges of the Great British Bake Off.
For instance, his most recent offering, 5 Ingredients, includes the instruction: ‘Rub all over, getting into all the cracks and crannies’ for his Thaistyle crispy sea bass, while messy meatballs requires followers to ‘warm your buns’. The star’s 30-Minute Meals, which has sold more than a million copies since its release in 2010, is similarly suggestive.
In the introduction, he tells would-be chefs: ‘Like making beautiful love, you might not always get things right first time around, but the benefits when you finally crack it are incredible.’ His stewed fruit suggests: ‘If your plums look soft and juicy, take them out…’, and a Tuscan salad demands you ‘squeeze everything with your hands’.
The 2012 15-Minute Meals contains even more cheeky comments. ‘I can’t tell you how hard it’s been,’ Oliver brags in the foreword. The chef made his comments during an interview with Sky 1’s Russell Howard.