Jamie Oliver, your Italian trattoria in Parramatta isn’t pukka

There is a rather nice recipe in Jamie Oliver’s sunny 2005 cookbook, Jamie’s Italian, for spaghetti con gamberetti e rucola (spaghetti with prawns and rocket).

Prawn linguine from Jamie's Italian Trattoria at Parramatta. Picture: Ken Martin

It’s a recipe that calls for not much more than pasta, oil, garlic, chilli, prawns, rocket and wine — many of the essential ingredients that make Italian food great. It looks so easy I might make it tonight.

The recipe puzzles me, however. Why does it look so good, when the equivalent dish — modestly described as “Our Famous Prawn Linguine” ($26.50) — at Oliver’s newest Sydney outlet, Jamie’s Italian Trattoria, is, well, so not that good.

Have the chefs at Jamie’s Trattoria not consulted the cookbooks that are piled up around the restaurant in prominent locations (handily for sale) to see exactly how this dish should turn out? Hey chefs, here’s a tip: the recipe is on page 116.

Source : Daily Telegraph        June 16th 2015