Chew On This: Jamie Oliver pirated on the internet?
A 100-plus page file is dropping into e-mail boxes claiming to be a Jamie Oliver cookbook. It's not the first time it has circulated. It made its first appearance on the web in summer 2003. Now it's back. Open the Britain-originating file and this is what you read: How good is this.....
Cook book = £20
Ingredients = £10
Getting sacked for "accidentally" releasing the book to the entire
planet before it even hits the shelves = PRICELESS!
Yes, The Naked Chef 2 does contain recipes from Britain's favorite cheekie cooking chappie. But when it circulated originally, it was judged a hoax. Recipes from a handful of his earlier collections seem to have been stitched together with glossy pix from different sources, like a lift from the video of Naked Chef 2 for the cover photo. Still, if you print out the whole file, on nice stiff paper, you've got a lovely cheap present for your favorite home cook - if they don't already own the whole Oliver oeuvre.
So is it the work of some committed but impoverished foodie wanting to spread Jamie's love for "pukka" nosh? Or a legitimate subsidiary rights sale for a new kind of 'remainder' outlet? Or is it a serious pirating job to create a money-making book for sale in unmarked lunch bags to cheapskate foodies?
Seems to me there's been a whole lotta Googlin' going on. I bet if this isn't a legitimate venture, publishers - not just his - are alarmed.
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