Quotes by Jamie Oliver

About Jamie Oliver:

James Trevor is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his global campaign for better food education.
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I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

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All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

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Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

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It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

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Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

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I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

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I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever b...

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Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

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The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

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If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

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If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

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When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!

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Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

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As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

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God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

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It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.

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Author Bio

  • NameJamie Oliver
  • DescriptionBritish chef and media personality
  • BornMay 27, 1975
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionChef; Restaurateur; Artist; Blogger; Writer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire; Emmy Award