Chef with a mission

Jamie Oliver, the caped crusader, is off on another mission, this time taking on the might and weight of America’s fattest town. Not content with trying to get Britain’s schoolkids to eat a healthy school meals diet, Jamie is trying to educate the fatties of Huntington – the town with the worst obesity levels in Virginia, which is the state with the biggest fat problem in the US. However it seems that the outsized residents are not too chuffed with the cheeky chappie lecturing them and have managed to reduce him to tears already. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is an attempt to provoke over there the kind of national debate about school dinners he engendered in 2005 in the UK. The UK series is long finished so things have settled down again to the usual burgers and chips and that’s exactly the problem with Jamie’s crusades, they only last as long as the ratings are high and until he gets bored before moving on to the next one. In recent years apart from the School Meals project, the Fifteen Project for young chefs barely seems to be limping along, his …

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