TV review: I hope Jamie Oliver never stops making Christmas specials

I’ll never get invited to one of Jamie’s get-togethers and neither will you, but for a hour in mid-winter, he makes you feel like his best friend in the world.

Jamie Cooks Christmas: it wouldn’t be mid-December if Jamie wasn’t giving us what feels like his three hundredth take on festive eating

Starting your Christmas TV special with salad is very Jamie Oliver. Jamie Cooks Christmas (Channel 4 and All4) is his latest hug for people who enjoy looking at food as much as eating it.

It kicks off with Jamie pulling root crops out of his garden and, honestly, I’m all in. Other TV chefs do this kind of stuff now, but you want the real thing at Christmas and he’s such an institution that it wouldn’t be mid-December if Jamie wasn’t giving us what feels like his three hundredth take on festive eating.