The celebrity chef has charmed the nation with his honest and passionate attitude in the jungle and is a strong favourite to win the series.

Gino has a long TV history and before his time in the jungle he was best known for his appearances on hit cooking show ‘Ready Steady Cook’. However, he is far from simply being a TV Chef – Gino co-owns and runs ‘Bontà Italia Ltd.’, which is a leading and respected importer of Italian ingredients.

Gino has also written two very good books:

Fantastico!: Modern Italian Food

Book Description: Gino D’Acampo is passionate about Italian food. He is equally passionate about how to cook, but also believes that you don’t need hundreds of ingredients and complicated haute cuisine techniques to achieve fantastic food. His maxim is minimum effort, maximum food, and if you cook the 100 recipes in his book, following his tips, NOT breaking his 10 rules – such as not mixing onion and garlic – and joining in his enthusiasm and humour, you will soon learn how to make great Italian food. This is a cookbook filled with modern Italian food, infused with Gino’s style and encompassing the myriad influences that have pervaded the country’s cuisine.

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‘Buonissimo!’

Book Description: ‘Buonissimo!’, Gino’s second book builds on the success of his first, ‘Fantastico!’, which was the perfect introduction to his cooking style. In ‘Buonissimo!’ Gino shows you how to make food that is simple, sexy, but very, very satisfying. It is his cookbook for the people – because it contains recipes for everybody, whether you live by yourself, with a friend or partner or as part of a big family. Gino believes that food brings people together, and the way the chapters are organised reflects this: ‘Facile facile’ is full of recipes that take hardly any time or ingredients to make but taste fantastic. The recipes in ‘Per Tutti i Giorni’ are cosy weekday suppers – quick, easy and perfect for families. For modern life, Gino’s recipes are straightforward and unpretentious, focusing on flavour rather than complicated cooking techniques or expensive ingredients.

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky is an incredible book that charts the history of the codfish and the massive impact it has made of the human race. Reading about codfish may not be the first thing you think of when looking for a gripping book, but Mark Kurlansky has created just that – a book about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other and has made it an engrossing read.

Product Description
The Cod – wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. He blends in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present. In a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus, he shows how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.

Review Quotes:
Sir Roy Strong, Express On Sunday:
“This is an extraordinary little book, unputdownable, written in the most lyrical, flowing style which paints vivid pictures and, at the same time, punches into place hard facts that stop you dead in your tracks. Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done. ”

Scotsman
An engrossing and timely little epic.

Mail on Sunday
To go out and buy a book on the subject (of cod) is to invite glances of suspicion. While a few eccentrics might think this is a good reason to purchase several copies, for the rest of us it requires a certain leap of faith. Cod … amply rewards such a leap. It is compact and beautifully produced.

Independent On Sunday
Refreshing and invigorating, full of fascinating facts.

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