Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver (born the May 27th 1975) is a famous chief cook with the the United Kingdom, where it is called the Naked Chef (the naked chief). Its popularity reached other anglophone countries like the the United States.

Biography

Jamie Oliver passed its youth in the village of Clavering, in the Essex. His/her parents held a restaurant-pub to with it. In 1989, it forms a musical group, Scarlet Division, with Leigh Haggerwood which became since type-setter.

He is discovered in 1996 by the producing one of television Patricia Llewellyn in documentary on a Christmas with Rivetting Coffee London, where Oliver worked then. He becomes the cook of the emission of kitchen The Naked Chef (1998 - 1999) which is a success.

Its nickname of " Naked Chef" (Naked Chief) from one supposed simplicity of its " does not come at all; préparations" , but owing to the fact that it never wears hat, however traditional hairstyle of the chief cooks (not of " cover-chef" , without pun). If its culinary preparations (= " things préparées"), according to the cases, simple or are sophisticated, on the other hand the way of proceeding, of " préparer" , at his place the result of a reflection is indeed on the simplification of the work of the cooker or the cook in order to facilitate it. Its success rests mainly on this naturalness, this relaxation, which is them his, and which, in fact, are imitated more and more by young chiefs in television programs in Great Britain.

He marries Juliette “Jools” Norton the June 24th 2000; they have two girls, Daisy Boo and Poppy Honey, born in 2002 and 2003.

In 2003, it is made member in the Ordre of the British Empire.

The emission Jamie' S Kitchen (kitchen of Jamie) enables him to open in London the Fifteen , a restaurant-school where fifteen young people in social difficulties learned how to manage a restaurant. Jamie Oliver since opened other restaurants taking again the same principle of assistance to the young people in Cornouailles, Amsterdam and Melbourne.

It benefits from its celebrity to attack the problem of the nutritional quality of the British school canteens, with the support of Cherie Blair, wife of the Prime Minister. Beginning 2005, through the series of TV-reality Jamie' S School Dinners , it shows the reality of these meals in a school of the south of London: There Fried S, Hamburger S, Fritter S, meals heated with the microwaves seems to be the common batch of schoolboys refusing to eat Fruit S and Légume S. At the end of March 2005, the Minister for Education announced an investment of 280 million books over three years for the school lunches, while denying to be thorough by the countryside of Jamie Oliver.

Televised career

On BBC, the series of the Naked Chief the fact of knowing: The Naked Chief, Return off the Naked Chief and Happy Days with the Naked Chief.

Passed on Chanel Furnace, it shows the creation and the life of the Fifteen restaurant in Jamie' S Kitchen (2002) and Return to Jamie' S Kitchen , and the reality of the school canteens in Jamie' S School Dinners .

Its programs are diffused in forty country, of which the the United States on the chain Food Network and the France on Cuisine.tv.

Several books are appeared compiling receipts of the emissions of Oliver. He also writes several chronicles in the British press.

See too

British Kitchen

External bonds

Official site
Biography on the site of the BBC
Site of '' Jamie' S School Dinners ''
Site of the countryside '' Feed me better '' (Nourish me better)

Simple: Jamie Oliver

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