JAMIE OLIVER

he published (The Naked Chef 2) was circulated around the net in Word format days before it was on sale. I had a copy sent to me and it has good recipes in it.

Don't know what happened to the guy from the publishers who distributed it confidentially to a friend. He's probably looking for another job.

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Born 27 May 1975 (1975-05-27) (age 33)

Clavering, Essex, England

Cooking style Fresh and Organic

Education Westminster Catering College

Current Restaurant(s)[show]

Fifteen (London)

Television show(s)[show]

Oliver's Twist, Jamie's School Dinners, Jamie's Great Italian Escape, Naked Chef, Jamie's Kitchen, Jamie's Chef, Jamie at Home,"Jamie's Fowl Dinners"

James Trevor Oliver, MBE (27 May 1975) better known as Jamie Oliver and nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an English celebrity chef. He is well known for his role in campaigning against processed foods in British schools. Since his early years, his Essex accent, which is often described as "mockney" or "fake cockney,"[1][2] has become infamous[3][4] - particularly the use of the hindi word "pukka" (colloquially meaning "brilliant" or "solid", originally "cooked" or "ripe"). Oliver is reported to be worth an estimated £25 million.[5]

James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver, was born on 27 May 1975, and grew up in Clavering, Essex, where his parents owned a pub-restaurant, "The Cricketers". From an early age Oliver helped in the pub kitchen; by the time he was 11, he was adept at vegetable preparation and could chop "like a demon". In 1989, Oliver formed the band Scarlet Division with friend Leigh Haggerwood, in which he was the drummer. Between the ages of 11 and 16 he attended Newport Free Grammar School in Essex. At age 16, he then attended Westminster Catering College and then studied in France, before returning to London to work as head pastry chef for Antonio Carluccio at The Neal Street Restaurant. After The Neal Street Restaurant, Oliver worked for Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers at the River Café for three and a half years; Oliver credits Gray and Rogers with teaching him to create the fresh and simple food which would become his signature. When the producer Patricia Llewellyn arrived to film "An Italian Christmas" at the River Cafe, she spotted Oliver. Llewellyn already had a proven eye for culinary talent as it was she who recognised that Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson-Wright would gel together, and now she was looking for someone who could cook, yet whose image would be different from the stars of The Two Fat Ladies. She put Oliver in front of a camera and told him to stay natural, the result of which was the cookery programme, The Naked Chef.[6] Two highly successful seasons of "The Naked Chef" were filmed in 1998 and 1999. The popular series brought Oliver worldwide fame, and more television programmes and book deals followed. As of 2007, Oliver had seven additional television series and ten books to his name.

In 2005 Jamie Oliver received the prestigious Beacon Fellowship Prize for his contribution to disadvantaged young people, offering training and practical experience in the catering industry

On 24 June 2000, Oliver married former model Juliette Norton, also known as "Jools". The couple met in 1993 and have two daughters: Poppy Honey (born in March 2002) and Daisy Boo (born 11 April 2003). They live in Primrose Hill, London.

Wanting to create something positive using his wealth and fame, Oliver conceived and established the Fifteen charity restaurant where he trained 15 disadvantaged young people to work in the hospitality industry. Following the success of the original restaurant in London, more Fifteens have opened around the globe: Fifteen Amsterdam opened in December, 2004, Fifteen Cornwall in Newquay opened in May, 2006, and Fifteen Melbourne opened in September, 2006, with Australian friend and fellow chef, Tobie Puttock. The process of creating and opening the original Fifteen was documented in the series "Jamie's Kitchen".

Next, Oliver began a formal campaign to ban unhealthy food in British schools and get children eating fresh, tasty, nutritious food instead. Oliver's efforts to bring radical change to the school meals system, chronicled in the series "Jamie's School Dinners", challenged the junk food culture by showing schools they could serve healthy, cost-efficient meals that kids enjoyed eating.[7]

In June, 2003, Oliver was appointed an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. He has also written columns for The Times. A great proponent of fresh organic foods, Oliver was named the most influential person in the UK hospitality industry when he topped the inaugural CatererSearch 100 in May 2005. The list placed Oliver higher than Sir Francis Mackay, the then-chairman of the contract catering giant, Compass Group, which Oliver had soundly criticised in "Jamie's School Dinners". In 2006, Oliver dropped to 2nd on the list behind fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay

I cant stand the bloke and his fake 'mockney' accent. He not even from London. Theres no doubt he can cook but every time I see him I want to knock him about it. As for the moped, he's 40 years too late.

Stick to cooking and forget about the image.

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but you are right,sometimes it looks like this

but the other way,he even explain things simple and i love his tips especially about using herbes.

I always thought he has perfectly punchable face! His recipes that he does for Italian are lessons in making simple food as complicated as possible and destroying the basic idea of food.

Apart from that he seems a reasonable enough guy, now that hes a bit older thank god he has stopped going "lovely jubbly" when something is nice.

naughty spicemom, i like you.

chaud

He is great, he has wonderful ideas. I have his three books and I cooked using his recipes with some small changes:)

when i heard that is what he is called i had to 'check' him out-hehhehhhehhehhe

he got a cute way of speaking too as in his pronounciation and dont he look good on that moped?>winks

life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

naked chef?

oh, delish, lol

chaud

samsam - are ya a food critic??:D or just someone who is always hungry?

life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

ah yes jamie oliver aka the naked chef he is superb, also nigella dawson aka the goddess

life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

make dinner and call me to give u my opinion

:P

:D

although with a son for a chef, I was in danger of becoming soooooooo fat!!!! LOL

i just got some new ideas to prepare a delicious dinner

and soooooo tasty, :)

just saw one of his shows on tv some min.ago.well i really like his style.it is easy and quick and simple.how cooking should be.

;-D

the fact that he has come so far without any real training, mostly self taught.

My eldest son is a chef and he thinks Jamie is top notch :)