Great Food Show: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Jamie Oliver :“Cooking with real ingredients, understanding where food comes from 

and passing along that knowledge
will get us back on track”

Not many celebrity chefs dedicate so much of their time and energy into actually educating people about the food they eat. Jamie Oliver is a natural advocate for better food education and for his food revolution he got a Harvard award.

“Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” was a show that has certainly changed many people’s lives. Although he had faced a lot of scrutiny and sparked controversies, some of Jamie Oliver’s advices and stories on ABC caught on. The chef had chosen the unhealthiest place in the United States, Huntington, W. Va., to try and make a difference. For his success and work in food education, he will be honored with the Healthy Cup Award of Harvard School of Public Health.

The United States has been preparing for the first ever Food Revolution Day. Hundreds of food events, dinner parties and debates have been scheduled to promote better food education, real food and awareness over what we are eating.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Jamie Oliver said of why junk food is so popular: “If you don’t know what stuff is or where to get it or what to do with it, then you haven’t got choice. You just start buying into the vicious circle of junk, junk, junk”.

It is a project the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation has been working hard to accomplish. The goal is to have people across the world “to make small, simple changes that will lead to healthier lives”.