Jamie Oliver
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A new front in the chocolate-milk wars
A Washington Post columnist is worried -- along with the dairy industry -- that kids won't drink milk at all if they can't have chocolate or strawberry. What harm could a few teaspoons of sugar do? Well, a lot -- when they add up to 7 pounds of sugar per kid per year.
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Jamie Oliver wins Emmy for 'Food Revolution'
Amazingly, given the absence of Snooki or dancing routines, Jamie Oliver won an Emmy Saturday for Outstanding Reality TV Program.
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The real ‘Food Revolution’ starts with healthy Appalachian cornbread
Why can’t a revolution based on traditional Appalachian foodways be televised?Photo: April McGreger Having watched the first three episodes, I’ve been thinking a lot about Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” TV Show. Who can argue with his efforts to get fresh food into West Virginia’s schools? No doubt, the pantries and fridges in most school cafeterias […]
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What’s that funny-talking TV chef doing in my West Virginia hometown?
It’s about 8:45 a.m. and I’m sitting in an audio booth, waiting to talk to Brit celebrity chef Jaime Oliver on the other end of a high-quality line. I’m his third, set-‘em-up-and-knock-‘em-down “interview” of the morning. The night before he was on Letterman. He’s 15 minutes late, and I have an uneasy feeling. Not about […]
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Is Michelle Obama about to take on Big Food?
With all the talk of Michael Pollan and Jamie Oliver lately, it’s easy to ignore the person who right now is, given her current address, the most influential voice on food policy in the country. Naturally, I’m talking about First Lady Michelle Obama. While she’s been exercising what diplomats would call her “soft power” for […]
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Can Jamie Oliver cooking lessons cure obesity?
Jamie OliverPhoto: Downing Street via Flickr What struck me most about the profile of celebrity chef and food activist Jamie Oliver in the NYT Magazine’s Food Issue was not his valiant attempts to re-educate Americans on the importance of scratch cooking. It’s that the poor man could have used some serious therapy as a child. […]
