Oh Cook!: The cookbook from James May with simple, easy recipes that any idiot can make.

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But, actually, he can cook, surprisingly well in fact, rustling up some quite decent pies and lasagnes. One of the aspects of the show is we get to enjoy his cooking mishaps a few times, which isn’t evident in the nice and pretty full-color images in the book.

Before reading the recipes on these pages, or indeed watching my cooking show, you should be aware that I can’t really cook. About the Author: James was one-third of one of the most successful television programmes of all time – BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ and he now co-hosts ‘The Grand Tour’. It's very easy to do, get fat and drunk because you're stuck in the house - I tried to avoid doing that," he adds. We had not much food and we came across a bothy in the frozen wilderness that hadn’t been used for decades. It used to be a camping food staple and we used to do camping a lot when I was a child, so it's partly sentimentality, plus Spam is a funny word.

May’s kitchen shtick continues to be a mix of everyman bafflement and mild curiosity about more refined culinary techniques, only with a minor twist – May is now edging away from banter in the direction of practical advice, albeit offered without any real confidence. He shows us the electric Lazy Susan the cameraman uses to get the final shots of the food in the round, and when the director has him cleave to a particular chopping position on the counter. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

It’s perhaps not all that surprising that James May has gone down the cooking route, given that May founded FoodTribe, a spin-off from DriveTribe, with his The Grand Tour co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond.I make so much from scratch that sometimes I felt guilt for simply mixing bottle sauce and pasta for a meal. They often include anecdotes, cultural and culinary observations of places they’ve been, and the occasional witty comment or two.