I do not understand what people have against Jamie Oliver: He seems a genuine enough guy; he tries to help people by running a restaurant where all the workers are people who have had difficulties and need help (Fifteen is the name of it); he seems to care about what young children are eating and tries to do something about it, rather than just talk about it, unlike some others.
bit annoying at the start with the mockney and the VW etc-trying to be to cool. Decent campaigns and seems to care and seems like an OK human being trying to make the world a better place via his love of good food.
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I liked his food crusades – fair dues. He went out on a limb with those. He got blokes interested in cooking and food for the sake of it, not just to appear in masterchef a la nineties.
I disliked his idiocy in the series he did in America recently (bruvva). Preaching at us about using fresh food, food miles etc and at the same time advertising for a massive supermarket.
I can’t say I really dislike him but I can’t express Jamie’s love for him either.
He appears to be the result of a combination of having a huge passion for good food, and being burdened with a serious and well meaning concern for how and what people eat.
As far as I can tell, all he has done is try to lift everyones game, get them eating better, for their own benefit and enjoyment.
Yeah to be honest, I’m gonna stick with shooting. I won’t even have to get out my SUV… and my belly might get in the way and make it difficult to dish out a decent whipping anyway.
makes great food, his latest book is his best yet (my mum got it for me), but really disappointed in how he’s sold out on the whole free range thing, you can buy Jamie Oliver sausages in tescos that aren’t free range, thats pretty shocking after the fuss he made about it.
He seems OK. I have his “Dinners” book which is meant to be “simple food to make in an evening” and I only make one thing out of it because it’s either “put toast in toaster, pop, apply butter, serve” or a 6 day long kitchen marathon complete with jus de nothing better to do.
All in, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall is my favourite because his food is balls out ridiculous but in a fun “killed it with my bare hands” kind of way.
I thought you typed by simply smashing your face into the keyboard then spell checking it – perhaps that is Hora though
Hahahaha.
To be honest, out of all the so-called “celebrity chefs” he is probably the one I have the most time for.
I disliked his idiocy in the series he did in America recently (bruvva)
I didn’t see much idiocy, just someone trying to understand how food plays a part in an incredibly diverse and complex culture. He genuinely seemed to connect with people, without any of the usual English arrogance and cynicism.
He might have connected with the murkins, but he still sounded like an eejit all the time. Tried too hard, but only in my opinion. It’s small beans in the grand scheme of things.
On telly Jammy All-over looks like a spanner, in reality he appears not to be.
But he’s still a Telly chef at the end of the day and most of those are ego maniacs.
I still love ithe italian series he did and the recent 30 minute meals was good too
I saw him on Iron chef america which is the only time I’ve seen him show his real skills – he lost but not by much – more respect for his cooking after that
