Jamie Oliver Quotes

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

Food, Love, Good

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
Jamie Oliver

Lazy, Kitchen, Reliable

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.
Jamie Oliver

Good, Timing, Usual

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Jamie Oliver

Romantic, Fire, Miss

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.
Jamie Oliver

Problem, Everyday, Treats

My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.
Jamie Oliver

Change, Cute, Achieve

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
Jamie Oliver

Health, Children, Chance

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
Jamie Oliver

Time, Food, Mistakes

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
Jamie Oliver

Food, Give, Put

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.
Jamie Oliver

Age, Quite, Early

I hate making TV documentaries.
Jamie Oliver

Hate, Making, Tv

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
Jamie Oliver

School, Nothing, Down

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.
Jamie Oliver

Nervous, Wear, Ties

I've cooked just about everything really.
Jamie Oliver

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
Jamie Oliver

Health, America, Wanted

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
Jamie Oliver

Food, Design, Whole

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.
Jamie Oliver

Long, Opinion, Mouth

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.
Jamie Oliver

Tell, Kids, Taste

My life is really so much based in England.
Jamie Oliver

Life, Based, England

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.
Jamie Oliver

Start, Stop, Eat

We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.
Jamie Oliver

Free, Days, Week

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.
Jamie Oliver

Today, Heart, Country

When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!
Jamie Oliver

Great, Down, Big

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

Life, Home, Food

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

Knowledge, Person, Trying

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Chef

Born: May 27, 1975

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