jamie oliver cookbook

smilingeyerish

I was just told a couple of weeks ago about the incident where jamie oliver's cookbook was sent around in an email as a word document. i was surprised i didnt hear about it it! anyway, didnt think anything about it but now i have a close relative who is in hospital for a few weeks and its getting pricey keeping them in reading material (they favour cookbooks incidently). wondering if anyone still had that cook book in their emails?i know it was about 2 years ago but id be so so grateful if someone could send me on a copy?

thank you!

i know i have this posted in the cooking and recipies forum too but this might get a bit more attention in after hours,im just eager to find something to entertain this relative!

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Do not move this to F&D please mods.

It's asking for copyrighted material.

javaboy

Since this thread will probably get binned anyway there's not much point but OP here's a cat pic for you: http://www.whatknows.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/funny-pictures-fat-cat-ate-book.jpg

Jigsaw

Get them that Timewaster Letters book. It is cheap and very funny.

There is another book called, "Why Everything is sh1t" or something like that. Also very amusing.

Btw, I did get that email back then but have since deleted it as I have no interest in cooking. It is something that ought to be done for me, not by me.

Naos

Someone would read a cookbook when bored?

Each to their own and everything but still...

OP: If it's getting expensive, why not just rent books out from a library?

jenga-jen

I got a copy of this 'book' via e-mail

I think if you google this you'll find out it was in fact a hoax and not a copy of Jamie Olivers book at all

humanji

Was it the King of Nigeria's Cookbook?

tbh

An email forward is circulating that supposedly includes a free copy of "The Naked Chef 2" which the message claims is a new cookbook by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. The email carries a large, 121 page Microsoft Word attachment that contains a number of Jamie Oliver recipes collected into a "book" complete with an index and illustrations.

The message claims that an employee of Jamie Oliver's publishing company inadvertently began the circulation of the new book when he or she sent a Microsoft Word version to a friend. However, this claim is unfounded. In fact, the word document is not a copy of Jamie's new book at all. Instead, it consists of recipes stolen from other Naked Chef publications and tacked together to form the bogus "book".

The "book" began circulating via email in July 2003. Several versions of the email, all with the same attached cookbook, have been distributed since then, including the late 2005 variant shown above.

Jamie has the following disclaimer on his website:

Thank you to everyone who has emailed us about the hoax book that has been circling the globe via the internet. Just so you know, it's not my new book but a bunch of recipes that have been taken from the website in the US. Not good either way though.

According to a 2003 article from "The Age", Jamie's publisher Penguin "is alarmed by the breach of copyright and lawyers said it could trigger a spate of similar "books". The culprit could face a substantial compensation claim."

This bogus recipe collection seriously breaches Oliver's copyright and should not be forwarded. Also, the email and attachment weigh in at over 500 kilobytes, so repeated forwarding consumes a sizable slice of bandwidth, and could prove especially annoying to dial-up users.

Forwarding this cookbook is unfair on Jamie, ethically dubious, and is likely to be illegal.

Sherifu

Never heard about this till now. Jamie is crap anyway. Nigella - yummy.

Karoma

Posting for traffic...
Requesting copyright protected material...
Falling for a hoax...

Christ, I should just ban you.