Excerpts

Excerpt from the Introduction This book was somewhat unplanned. I didn't think I'd ever write another 5 Ingredients , but I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked to do so, especially by my wife, Jools. She told me to stop thinking about anything else: "It's where people are at, when our lives are so incredibly busy - it's the book all the parents at school talk about." Now I've never really been one to revisit old territory and repeat a scenario, but it's a sign of the times. People cook very differently today in comparison to 50 or even 25 years ago when I first started - there's just so much more we have to fit into our busy lives, and the way tech has grown around us, it has both given and taken time away. Plus, it's human nature to find the most efficient way to gain back time but fill it with something else! And so, with this in mind, I've written you another 5 Ingredients cookbook with the added va-va-voom of basing it on my lifelong experiences traveling around the Mediterranean - with one of the most loved and respected diets in the world - where simplicity, love, passion, care and dedication to taste and big flavor are at its heart. Excerpted from 5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food by Jamie Oliver All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.