Jamie Oliver

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Jamie Oliver

Profession: Celebrity chef
Place/Date of Birth: Clavering, Essex, 27 May 2020

In the show, Road Kill Cafe, Drennan goes to Sandwich in Kent to persuade locals to forage for the first time and discover the delights of road-kill meat.

At the end of a three-week stay, he holds a wild meat banquet, offering people the choice to eat either the food he sourced from beaches, forest undergrowths and roadside gutters or from normal channels.

The show, which does not feature Jamie on screen, was announced at the BBC Three winter/spring 2007 season launch today.

TV chef Jamie proves an inspiration - Nov 23 2006
A pub that made school meals as an experiment in Jamie Oliver’s televised quest to improve children’s diets, has moved into the education market full time.

The King’s Head, in Theddlethorpe, Lincs, was beamed into the nation’s living rooms earlier this year when it took part in a scheme thought up by the celebrity chef.

In Jamie’s Return to School Dinners, the pub - run by husband and wife Phil and Maureen Cross - agreed to make meals for pupils at a school which had no dinner service of its own.

And it closed its doors to punters last Tuesday after the couple decided their business would make more money by concentrating on the initiative full-time.

Phil told Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine: "We did a financial overview of the whole business and the accountant told us we were losing a fortune as a pub."

The enterprise now has four local schools on its books and turns over around £6,000 a month.

The pub’s four drivers now deliver 1,000 meals a week, but the couple say they want to move into bigger premises in the next fortnight and take on six more schools.

The Crosses say they cook all the meals themselves. Phil added: "Jamie told us his recipes were idiot-proof and he was right."

The couple said the chef was now planning a return visit with the cameras to check on their progress.

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Biography

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver thinks everything is ’pukka’ which means upper class or well-bred according to my dictionary. He came into my local once, admittedly only to shoot a short scene for his intensely irritating Sainsbury’s TV advertising campaign, which he reputedly trousered a cool million quid for. He’s made lots out of his books as well, which are mostly about cooking. Recently moved to a new home in Hampstead with wife Juliette Norton.
Written in 2001
October 2007