Jamie Oliver

Live: The xx Feel At Home At A Sold-Out Terminal 5

The xx Terminal 5 Thursday, August 2 Better than: Watching one of the 500 iPhone concert videos on YouTube. Near the end of last night's performance, Jamie Smith Oliver Sim—a third of the English indie pop band The xx—needed to make a confession. "We were terrified before we walked on ... More >>

Under the Toque: State Chefs, Jamie Oliver's Treasure

In chef news this week: British chef Jamie Oliver found a treasure worth $1.7 million hidden in the basement of his latest restaurant. [NY Post]Who knew that Florida is the only state with a full-time official chef? Justin Timineri's job is to create healthy menus for people in the food-stamp progra ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Pulls a Thomas Keller and Installs Closed Circuit TV Cameras in His Kitchens

Smile.​In what the British press is calling a "somewhat Orwellian move," Jamie Oliver is installing closed-circuit TV cameras in his restaurants throughout England.

Sparkling Rosés on the Rise; London Takes Pop-Up Restaurants to New Level

​Beer archaeologist Patrick McGovern is working with Dogfish's Sam Calagione to investigate brewing methods that go as far back as 18,000 years ago. [io9] Sparkling rosés might not be the most complex or sophisticated wines, but they are great for summer picnics, which would explain their gr ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Gets Flavored Milk Banned in L.A.; Ferran Adrià Teams Up With Pepsi

​Superstar chef Ferran Adrià is forming a new partnership now that El Bulli is about to close ... with PepsiCo. [Eater] Jamie Oliver wins one for the kids as the Los Angeles Unified School District decides to ban flavored milks. [LA Times] Twenty coffee experts gather in Santa Marta, Colomb ... More >>

Chef Boyardee Heiress Writes a Cookbook; Supperclub Holds Illegal Dinner on Subway

​As gas prices continue to rise, a number of farmers on small farms are trading in their tractors and returning to animal labor. [NY Times] Anna Boiardi, the granddaughter of Mario and great-niece of Hector and Paul Boiardi, immigrant brothers who founded Chef Boyardee in 1928, has written a ... More >>

ABC Fires the Last Shot in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

​After much fanfare, controversy, and analysis, it's come to this: ABC has pulled Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution from its line-up due to low ratings. Adding insult to injury, the network is replacing the show with Dancing With the Stars recaps. As Huntington, West Virginia could have told us, ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Truck Hits the Road; Human Breast Milk Cheese Installation Polarizes New Yorkers

​At the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational in L.A., the Cheesy Nerdz won several trophies for their Whole Enchilada sandwich, while a husband-and-wife team took top honors for a grilled-cheese dessert made with Peeps. [Wall Street Journal] Donatella Arpaia missed the Royal Wedding because she w ... More >>

Todd English Sued for Skipping Out on Rent; Jamie Oliver Declares Small Win in L.A.

​Todd English got the third degree from lawyer David Katz giving his deposition regarding allegations that he skipped out on a $9,000-a-month lease on a Nolita loft. [NY Post] The state has for the first time released the definitive guide to what foods can be taxed. In short, if it comes read ... More >>

Food Day 2011 Will Attempt to Get America to 'Eat Real'

​Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Feels Really Bad About Huntington, W.V. Losing Its Funding

Jamie Oliver disappointed in U.S. Foodservice.​Earlier this year came the sad news: without celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his Food Revolution, the town of Huntington, W.V. was done for. At least, its healthy food-focused Huntington's Kitchen, the school that Oliver founded when he came to fi ... More >>

Thomas Keller to Be Recognized by French Legion of Honor; Subway Now Bigger Than McDonald's Worldwide

​Thomas Keller will be named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, joining the ranks of Julia Child and Alice Waters as the only Americans in the food world to get the honor. [Diner's Journal] More good news about the Mediterranean diet: a new Greek study found new evidence that it helps i ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Is Coming to a Truck Stop Near You

​Even though he despaired over America's lardy eating habits, our plus-sized lifestyle seems to have rubbed off on Jamie Oliver. The chef/media juggernaut has just unveiled a monster 14-wheel truck designed to carry his Food Revolution all across our land. Per Grub Street, the Food Revolution ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Restaurant Romance Gone Awry; Best V-Day Candy

This week in food blogs... Eater rounded up 12 of the city's most extreme pizzerias. And, yes, one of the Artichoke pies makes the list. Grub Street posted 14 tales of restaurant romance gone awry. And one involves a naked redhead (which might be hot if it weren't a man). Diner's Journal was shoc ... More >>

With Jamie Oliver Gone, So Is Huntington, W.V.'s Corporate Sponsorship

​Remember Huntington, W.V., the town that Jamie Oliver visited last year in the hopes of teaching its overweight residents how to cook real food? Neither does U.S. Foodservice.

L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay

​The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>

Kevin McGhee 'In' at Picholine; Shlomi Biton 'Out' at Mahjong

​Since the shuttering of Xie Xie, Angelo Sosa is keeping busy with projects such as rolling out a new kati roll with the Kati Roll Company. You can even see him behind the counter! [Midtown Lunch] Kevin McGhee, the former sous-chef at Eleven Madison Park, is the new chef de cuisine at Picholi ... More >>

Why We Don't Mind Shelling Out for Fancy Foods; Vegas More Expensive Than New York for Diners

​Economist and Brooklynite Eduardo Porter explains why New Yorkers are willing to pay for certain things -- like fancy coffee and hundred-dollar meals -- but not others in his new book: The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do. [NY Post] Josh Ozersky manages to go ... More >>

Too Much Lead in Our Tap Water; Trader Joe's Recalls Cilantro

​City officials have advised residents to run their tap water for at least 30 seconds before drinking or cooking with it due to elevated levels of lead. [NY Times] Some tips for shopping at the local farmers market: go early, talk to farmers but don't try to haggle with them, bring enough cas ... More >>

Surprisingly, You Can't Make Jamie Oliver's 30-Minute Meals in 30 Minutes

Not so fast.​Rachael Ray's numerous detractors are fond of pointing out that you can't actually make many of her 30-Minute Meals in 30 minutes. Britain is also a country that likes to take its food celebrities to task, and the folks at The Guardian are doing their part by giving the time-teste ... More >>

We Should Be Eating Acorns; Jamie Oliver is Sorely Misunderstood

​Tavern on the Green fixtures have has been relocated to various locations around the city and beyond, including a Tiffany ceiling lamp purchased by Regis Philbin. [NY Post] Small-food communities are growing in parts of the country, but do farmers markets and the like still mostly cater to w ... More >>

Lady Gaga Wears Meat to MTV Awards; Corn Syrup Hoping to Change Name & Image

​Michelle Obama addressed the NRA recently -- the National Restaurant Association, that is -- calling for increased efforts to fight childhood obesity. [Nation's Restaurant News] U.S. Foodservice Inc., a food distribution company, agreed to pay $30 million to settle civil fraud charges that i ... More >>

Top Chef, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Win at the Emmys

BravoSmile! You won!​Although its current season has so far been its worst yet, that didn't stop Top Chef from winning an Emmy last night for best Reality Competition, ending the seven-year reign of The Amazing Race. And it looks like Jamie Oliver's uphill battle with the residents of Huntingt ... More >>

Cheetos Have No Friend in the Senate

Nikolas Muray, FlickrPoliticians against crap for a change.​Yesterday, the Senate unanimously passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which will commit $4.5 billion to federal child nutrition programs, including school lunch, over the next decade, The Washington Post reports.

Mario Batali Accused of Labor Violations; The City's Best Restaurant Breads

​The final episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC had mediocre ratings, earning less less than 4 million viewers and losing to Dateline and a repeat of Medium. [NY Post] Asian carp are reviled by fishermen in the North, but in the South, they're being rebranded as Kentucky tune: "a ... More >>

Fake Heirlooms Rile Tomato Purists; Burger King Does... Brunch?

​In Durham, N.C., the rich outlying soils that once grew tobacco now sprout peas, strawberries, fennel, artichokes, and lettuce. Chefs are also using local milk, cheese, eggs, pigs, chickens, quail, lambs, and rabbits. [NY Times] Tomato purists cry heresy as plant breeders offer hybrid versio ... More >>

Oh, America: Military Recruiting Hampered by Obesity

This we'll defend?​It looks like deep-fried butter and McDonald's Extra-Value Meals are doing what anti-war protesters in the '60s could have scarcely dared to dream would one day be possible: They are making people too fat to serve in the military.

Do Not Mess With the Lunch Ladies of Atlantic City High School

Sit down and suck it up.​If you thought the lunch ladies on Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution were a tough bunch, then you obviously haven't visited the cafeteria of Atlantic City High School. The Press of Atlantic City reports that after students held a cell phone-coordinated food fight, cafeter ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Doesn't Approve of Potty Mouth; David Chang Wears Both Boxers and Briefs

​A Korean-born chef who used to work at Le Bernardin is the first food truck cook to be named one of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs. [Reuters] Why you won't hear Jamie Oliver cursing out any chubby kids in Virginia: "I don't approve of [chefs] who swear... Sometimes you feel it's their ... More >>

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Is Ratings Revolution for ABC

What a bathtub has to do with school lunch, we're not entirely sure.​Even if a bunch of schoolkids didn't care for his cooking, plenty of viewers seem to want to eat up what Jamie Oliver's serving on TV: Variety reports that Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution lured 7.5 million viewers to ABC when ... More >>

Breaking: Children Prefer Sugary, Fatty Food Over Vegetables Prepared by Jamie Oliver

evelynishere/FlickrLook, vegetables!​If you're a 7-year-old used to drinking strawberry milk and eating pizza for breakfast, chances are you're not going to fall instantly in love with fresh vegetables just because a famous British chef makes them for you on TV. That's more or less the conclus ... More >>

The Fastest-Growing Fast-Food Chains; Restaurants Happy It's Spring

​Peter Chang, the cult Chinese chef, has once again disappeared from the restaurant that employed him, leaving "Changians" to search for him once more. A recent article by Calvin Trilling may have attracted too much attention to the chef, spurring him to flee. [New Yorker] The annual Technomi ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Thinks Bloomberg Is "Sensible," and Those Concerned About the Food Police Are "Just Whingers"

Jamie Oliver opens wide.​Jamie Oliver's exhaustively chronicled reality show, Food Revolution, finally premieres tonight. Grub Street shot the breeze with Oliver about everything from getting West Virginians to eat vegetables to his new barbecue restaurant with Adam Perry Lang. They also asked ... More >>

David Letterman Tells Jamie Oliver His "Food Revolution" Is Hopeless

David Letterman didn't let up for the duration of his interview with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver last night, when the two discussed Oliver's show, Food Revolution, in which the chef tries to change the eating habits of America's fattest town: Huntington, West Virginia. No tears were shed, but Letterma ... More >>

Fast Company Names Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food

parttake/photobucketSome thumbs are greener than others.​Feeling green, perhaps, Fast Company has listed its 10 "Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food," including farmers, chefs, and urban planners. (Unsurprisingly, a certain organic supermarket chain CEO is noticeably absent from the list ... More >>

Michael Pollan's New Food Rules

The New York Times Magazine's food issue is coming out this weekend, but some of the content is online now, like the cover story on Jamie Oliver's project to make fat Americans slim down. Then Michael Pollan weighs in, as he is wont to do, with some new rules on how to eat. But these aren't actuall ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Visits 'Cruder' Queens

In a recent episode of Jamie's America, Jamie Oliver finds himself in a couple of Chinese kitchens in the "vibrant... cruder... microcosm" that is Flushing, where after a few comical mispronunciations of dan dan mian, he makes himself a bowl of the spicy noodle dish. He also gets to make his own n ... More >>

Naked Chef in America's Fattest City; Heston Blumenthal Serves Shite

​Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica Seinfeld, has won her plagiarism case against author Missy Chase Lapine, who claimed that Deceptively Delicious was a ripoff of her book, The Sneaky Chef. [NY Daily News] The Greenwich Village restaurant Commerce has stopped accepting cash and will only accept ... More >>

Beyond the Breslin: April Bloomfield is Thinking Tea, Bakeries, Cookbook

Though we're still digesting the countless details being divulged in advance of the Breslin's imminent opening, April Bloomfield is already thinking of what's next. In an interview with GQ UK, she tells the magazine that "I really want to open a bakery or a teahouse. I always wanted to write a cookb ... More >>

Friday Follies: Jamie Oliver, Dancing

​Over on Jamie Oliver's website, there is a delightful video of the cheeky chappie dancing as all five members of the Village People to promote the September 1 premiere of his new show, Jamie's American Road Trip. Though the show will only air in the UK, the video makes one hope for its eventu ... More >>

Vegetarian Dishes for Meat Lovers by Meat Lovers; Alain Ducasse Opens a Cooking School for Locals & Tourists

For carnivores trying to reduce their meat consumption for the greater good (ie., sustainability reasons), vegetarian recipes from meat lovers may be the answer, such as Bill Niman, of Niman Ranch's, Three-Bean Chili and barbecue expert Steven Raichlen's Malaysian Grilled Tofu with Chilli Peanut Sau ... More >>

Naked Chef Coming to a Fat City Near You; Snake Head Found in TGI Friday's Meal

A diner at a T.G.I. Friday's in upstate New York found a severed snake head in his vegetables. The head was the size of a thumb, with part of the spine still attached. The restaurant comped him and his companion the meal. [AP via Google] With shoppers trading down from brand names to store brands, ... More >>

Nude Pregnant PETA Protest Fries Bacon Advocate

It's a little early for Mother's Day celebrations, but PETA UK nonetheless wished an Unhappy one on British chef Jamie Oliver for his promotion of British pork on a TV show, "Jamie Saves Our Bacon," and had two of their pregnant operatives get naked on all fours in metal pens in front of his Londo ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Good for Kids

In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coff ... More >>

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Jamie Oliver Cooks in a Beenie, Naturally

Last Meal: April Bloomfield Goes Home

G-Spot

A new Village Italian bistro masquerades as a gastropub

The F-Word

Today's special: Diet-guru crash course—with a side of celeb-chef comfort food

Virgin Suicide

Skin Dives, Las Vegas Gambles, and Chef Jamie Oliver Gets Naked, Emotionally