Quotes by Jamie Oliver - Page 2

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Doubt
Next
Sugar
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Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Class
Cry
Disruptive
Pain
People
Arse
Pain People Feel
Classes
Listened
Screw
Young People
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I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Kids
Dinner
Giving
Lovely
Play
Oven
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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Golden
Junk
Junk Food
Looks
Nuggets
Everywhere
Twice
Accessible
Cheap
Rattling
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What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Cooking
Country
Direct
Grilling
Heat
Mean
Years
All Year
Box
Countries
Enclosed
Round
Ideally
Wood
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I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Children
Fighting
Strong
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I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Romantic
Bits
Clothes
Hands
Ideas
Starting
Always Your Better
Sit
Slightly
Store
Wood
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If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Food
Mean
Nice
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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Dad
Barbecue
Brilliant
Cooking
Eating
Erratic
Memories
Summer
Swearing
Full
Eventually
Outdoor
Sausages
Summers
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My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Millions
Monday
Produce
Recipes
Thursday
Know Everyone How
Cook
General Rule
Local
Rule
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I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Cake
Cold
Jam
Mcdonalds
Red
Red Bull
Sandwiches
School
Bull
Cakes
Cans
Challenge
Guarantee
Mcdonald
One Or Two
Several
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Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Kids
Children
School
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Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Teacher
Teaching
Thinking
Teachers
Normally
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It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Cooking
Movement
Spread
Trying
Affect
Estimate
Passes
Potentially
Quickly
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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Love
Amazing
Food
Good
Enjoyed
Good Food
Ideas
Interest
People
Real
Something New
Love Good Food
Most
Love Good Amazing
Love Food Amazing
Thing
Always
Who
Them
Find
Global
Learn
Meeting
Sharing
Something
Though
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As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Kitchen
Laughing
Lovely
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It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Kids
Bloody
Giving
School
Speed
Standards
Double
Good Meal
Limit
Meal
Speed Limit
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Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Children
Real
School
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Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Jumping
Long
People
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I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Home
Generations
Home Life
Meals
Modern Life
Past
Relevant
School
Cook
Processed
Properly
Shown
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I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Kids
Academic
Approach
Involving
Problem Solving
Skills
Tactile
Team
Thinking
Fail
People Doing Enough
Types
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I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Availability
People
Powerful
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I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Country
People
Thinking
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Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Reading
School
Writing
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Now, everyone is excited about food - cooking, growing, learning - watching it on TV, buying books, trying things at home. It's the greatest time ever to be in food - which is why it's so hard to see so many people still relying on processed food. I am hoping that we had a generational blip - and that these young people will continue on and pass on their love of food and creativity to the next generation of kids.
Jamie Oliver / Chef
Home
Book
Creativity
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