In a recent interview with The Radio Times magazine, queen of the kitchen, Delia Smith spilt the beans on what she realy thinks of her fellow celebrity chefs.
She revealed that she doesn’t entirely approve of Gordon Brown’s frequent bad language, saying “That’s not teaching. I like him when he does his recipes, but I’m not keen on his swearing.”
But Smith had only good things to say about Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver:
“Jamie is brilliant and has done more than anyone. I enjoy Nigella - she has such a passion for food. Read More »
February 19, 2008 – 11:18 pm
Jamie Oliver is back in the garden of his Essex home, to show just how easy it is to grow fantastic veg and fruit, and turn it into simple, tasty and delicious food. This time Jamie’s looking at strawberries. With the help of gardener Brian, Jamie has transformed his garden and discovered a passion for growing his own produce.
From perfect peas to superb salad, this series is Jamie’s straightforward guide to getting the best from Mother Nature. What was once most people’s favourite summer fruit has become available all year round and the taste has suffered accordingly. Well, there’s only one thing for it and that’s to grow your own. Jamie’s garden is bursting with strawberries from hanging baskets, a great way to grow them, and he picks them in situ to make a strawberry salad with speck and halloumi. Read More »
February 7, 2008 – 10:32 pm
Jamie Oliver is to make a new TV show for children, called Made With Magic to air on Nick Jr.
Made With Magic is described as a “TV show about cookery with a touch of magic”
The show will be made by Jamie’s production company Fresh One and although he will act as executive producer, he is unlikely to appear on the show.
Zoe Collins, head of Fresh One, said: “This is a huge opportunity for Fresh One Productions and we are dead excited about potentially producing a world class kids’ TV programme… with food as its central theme. Read More »
January 28, 2008 – 11:12 pm
Jamie Oliver is back in the garden of his Essex home, to show just how easy it is to grow fantastic veg and fruit, and turn it into simple, tasty and delicious food.
This time Jamie’s looking at delicious pastry. With the help of gardener Brian, Jamie has transformed his garden and discovered a passion for growing his own produce. From perfect peas to superb salad, this series is Jamie’s straightforward guide to getting the best from Mother Nature. Read More »
January 16, 2008 – 12:56 am
Jamie Oliver is back in the garden of his Essex home to show just how easy it is to grow fantastic fruit and veg and turn it into simple, tasty and delicious food. With the help of gardener Brian, Jamie has transformed his garden and discovered a passion for growing his own produce.
Whether you’ve got an unloved patch of grass, a balcony or even just enough room for a window box, Jamie has some top tips to make cultivating amazing fruit and veg at home easy. In the first programme of the new series, Jamie is cooking with lamb and gets a visit from Daphne, a Welsh sheep farmer, as they discuss some of the misconceptions about spring lamb, the differences between lamb, hogget and mutton, and how good conditions for the animals ultimately make the meat taste so much better. Read More »
January 15, 2008 – 8:56 pm
As millions of Britons recover from their Christmas excess and make resolutions to eat more healthily, Jamie Oliver reveals what is really in the Great British diet, and how it could be killing us. Using a series of dramatic demonstrations - including the autopsy of a 25-stone man who literally ate himself to death - Jamie, fitness expert Dr Catherine Spencer-Smith and anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens show 18 volunteers exactly what harm their terrible diets are doing to them and, most importantly, what they can do to change their ways and get healthy.
The programme is part of Channel 4’s The Big Food Fight , a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating. With the worst diet in Europe, two thirds of Britons are overweight, and treating obesity-related diseases costs the NHS more than £3 billion a year. Experts fear that today’s children could be the first generation to die younger than their parents if nothing is done. Read More »
January 12, 2008 – 10:13 am
Jamie Oliver has backed Channel 4’s decision to show the autopsy of a 25 stone dead man, as part of his new TV show, Eat To Save Your Life.
Speakign to The Sun, Jamie said:
“Some parts of the programme will be gross.
“But it might make people change their eating habits. We’re looking at the effects a lifetime of junk has on your body.”
In the show Jamie will watch Dr Gunther von Hagens dissect a man who died as a result of a life of eating junk food. Read More »
January 8, 2008 – 3:07 pm
Forget about School dinners, Jamie Oliver is on a new crusade. In his new show, Jamies Fowl Dinners the naked chef will be investigating the life and death of chickens sold cheaply in our local supermarket.
In this interview, Jamie shares what he hoped to achieve by taking part in the show, and some of the shocking facts that all us meat eaters should know.
Why are you making this programme? What do you hope to achieve?
As far as I can see, the British poultry industry is at an incredibly vulnerable point right now and if we don’t start making changes, like shopping differently, we might not have a poultry industry in 20 years time.
In terms of what I hope to achieve, I think if even a small percentage of people watching were informed and decided to shop differently as a result, then that would make a real difference. Some of the people in the audience at the filming were shocked enough to want to change their shopping habits so I’m hoping some of the viewers at home will be affected in the same way. We should all be thinking why something is so cheap, rather than why others seem so expensive.
What did you find when you visited farms and talked to producers? Read More »
January 4, 2008 – 9:36 am
Forget about School dinners, Jamie Oliver is on a new crusade. This time the naked chef will be investigating the life and death of chickens sold cheaply in our local supermarket.
In the show, which will air on Channel 4 this month, Jamie can be seen killing chickens himself as well as watching them be slaughtered professionally.
He told The Sun:
“I hated it. But I don’t think it’s sensational to show people the reality of how chickens live and die at the moment,” he said.
“It may be upsetting for some people, but that’s how things are. All of those birds would have been killed anyway, as thousands are every day up and down the country.
“And if seeing some of the practices helps to change the shopping habits of just 5% of people watching, then it will be worth it.”
Jamie has claimed that our expectation to be able to buy very cheap chicken is leading to awful conditions for the chickens and very poor return for farmers. Read More »
December 22, 2007 – 9:52 pm
This January, for the first time Channel 4 unites its three titans of cuisine – Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver – in a two week season of programming that challenges the people of Britain to think before they eat. During The Big Food Fight season, Hugh confronts the nation’s supermarkets, Jamie exposes the over-industrialised food industry and Gordon goes LIVE as he proves fast food can mean good food. The season will also include two Dispatches specials.
