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Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver on "Jamie at Home" Jamie Oliver Pictures Jamie Oliver is best known for his TV series "The Naked Chef." Jamie Oliver was also one of the judges on ABC's "Oprah's Big Give." Growing up in Essex, where his parents run their own highly respected pub/restaurant in Clavering, Jamie Oliver was frequently found helping in the kitchen. At 16, Jamie Oliver left school to complete his training at Westminster Catering College. After spending time working in France and at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant in London, Jamie Oliver joined the acclaimed River Café where he worked for three and a half years alongside Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. In 1997, Jamie Oliver was featured in a television documentary about the River Café. Jamie Oliver was then offered his own television show, and "The Naked Chef" was born. The concept was to strip food down to its bare essentials, and Jamie Oliver's hands-on style and general laid back outlook was like a breath of fresh air, inspiring everyone to cook. The first U.S. show aired in 1999. "The Naked Chef" book accompanied the television series and became an instant bestseller. A second and third television series was filmed, along with the second and third tie-in books all published by Hyperion in the United States: "The Return of the Naked Chef" and "Happy Days with the Naked Chef." Jamie Oliver spent the autumn of 2001 taking his show on the road; the Happy Days Tour was a huge success with over 17,000 people packing theatres in the UK. The tour then travelled to Australia and New Zealand with sold-out crowds in seven cities. In 2001, by personal invitation from Tony Blair, Jamie Oliver also cooked for the Prime Minister of Italy at Downing Street. Jamie Oliver wanted to give something back to the catering industry, so he opened a training restaurant in 2001 for young people who were not in full-time education or employment. Cameras documented him as he spent the year setting up a training scheme, the restaurant and the charity into which all the profits would be channelled. The series,"Jamie's Kitchen," became one of the biggest hit shows of the year in the UK. It has now been shown in over 35 countries and the tie-in book, also called "Jamie's Kitchen," became a runaway success. The triumph of the restaurant was shown when it won "Tatler Best Restaurant Award 2003" and the "Academy Award of Excellence" at the Tio Pepe Carlton London Restaurant Awards in the same year. Jamie Oliver was awarded an MBE in 2003 for his contribution to the hospitality industry. The Fifteen Foundation charity now owns Fifteen London and continues its work, recently recruiting the sixth year of students for training in London. The first Fifteen franchise opened in Amsterdam in 2004 and subsequent Fifteens have opened in Cornwall, UK and Melbourne, Australia in 2006. Motivated by the lack of nutrition in UK school lunches, Jamie Oliver wanted to educated and motivate the kids and school administrators to enjoy cooking and eating nutritious lunches. Jamie Oliver launched a national campaign called Feed Me Better with an online petition for better school meals that garnered 271,677 signatures. In March 2005, Jamie Oliver took the petition to 10 Downing Street where the government pledged an extra $550 million to improve the standard of school meals and to provide training for lunch workers and equipment for schools. Over seven months of hard work and filming culminated in the award-winning series "Jamie's School Dinners," which prompted a public outcry for change to the school meals system. A follow-up documentary, "Jamie's Return To School Dinners" aired in the UK in September 2006, and the British government made further investment in school meals and food education for school children as a result of Jamie's new findings. "Jamie's Great Italian Escape," a series based on his travels around Italy and his love of Italian food, followed his school movement and was accompanied by his sixth book, "Jamie's Italy." In addition to his television programs and books, Jamie Oliver works with top UK supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, advising them on how to further improve the quality and variety of supermarket food. Jamie Oliver has also designed several lines of quality tableware and serveware with Royal Worcester including the most recent range, Simply Blue. Working with T-Fal, Jamie Oliver has launched three lines of cookware called the Jamie Oliver Professional Series, most recently, The Italian Series. Jamie Oliver has also launched an Italian food range and has a wide range of gift foods, which are distributed internationally. Jamie Oliver has also developed a great kitchen gadget called the Flavour Shaker, which launched in the UK in 2005 and is also being launched internationally. Jamie Oliver's seventh book, "Cook With Jamie," was published in October 2007 by Hyperion Books. All of Jamie Oliver's profits from this book are going to the Fifteen Foundation to help more young people start a career in the catering industry. Through 2006 and early 2007, Jamie Oliver filmed a series and wrote a book both called "Jamie At Home." Jamie Oliver had been successfully growing fruits, vegetables and herbs at his Essex farmhouse since 2004. The book and series reflect his new love of gardening organically and feature delicious recipes inspired by the produce of his garden. In 2008, "Jamie At Home" aired in the United States. The book will be published in the fall of 2008.
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@fanofrob @StarsOfTwilight OMG you 2 are like frickin masterchef - jamie oliver i aint ok my husband is the cook in our little family ha ha less than an hour agoGoing to a Jamie Oliver class on how to choose fresh fish, prepare and not kill your guests. Very excited! less than an hour agoWatching the young British master doing his delicious culinary work: Jamie Oliver. You gotta love this guy. 1 hour agoBloody hell, 20 minutes and still Jamie Oliver app is downloading....how big is this thing? Better result in a tasty dinner. 1 hour agoThe Jamie Oliver app is for sale over the weekend. Go and grab it, it's very well done and brings some very delicious recipes! #cooking 2 hours ago@allerley Jamie Oliver - does not need to be in a computer friendly format - he does do books! 2 hours ago@SafaAlabedy jamie oliver!! I love him!! Why do they complain about thirty!!! Why why!! I don't wanna turn 30 :(! 2 hours agoEven via the iMac, Jamie Oliver's 20 Minute Meals app is taking 40 minutes to download. WHAT IF I WAS HUNGRY? 3 hours agoJamie Oliver tickets on sale soon for his Melbourne gigs. Yay!! 4 hours ago@kjklovesjoej Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef) has been filming a special here on how to eat healthier and tomorrow is the farewell party 4 hours agoJamie's Kitchen is hosting a food fair tomorrow. Rest assured everything served will be killed by Jamie Oliver's bare hands. I'll be there. 6 hours agoChef Jamie Oliver is doing a talk at Roy Thomson Hall on Sunday.... but tickets are $50-$100!! :( 6 hours agoFinally got an opportunity to try a Jamie Oliver app recipe. This evening's specialty: Farfalle Genovese. Seems simple enough. I hope. 7 hours agoWatching Jamie Oliver documentary...amazing..I will never look at chicken the same way!! 8 hours agoFLIRT TIP:
Famous TV chef Jamie Oliver and Match.com are creating a dating site for food lovers. #fb 9 hours agoJamie Oliver nude, hot damn! 9 hours ago |
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