I’m staying at Jamie Oliver’s parents pub this weekend. When I found that out I knew the food was going to be delicious. The first night I had swordfish steak – and that was massive! Really tasty too. Last night I decided to try ostrich as i’ve heard a lot about it, but never had a chance to eat it. It doesn’t taste like chicken though! It is a very dark meat, hard to describe. The taste is very powerful though. Although I enjoyed the steak I don’t think i’d have it again though. Tonight is the Sunday roast – mmmmmmm!
I went into Cambridge yesterday and did a bit of walking around the city. One of the colleges was graduating, so there were loads of people in gowns, and some in tophats! I just wish I had brought the camera with me, but I was expecting to be working the whole weekend so hadn’t bothered 🙁 The college buildings are really impressive and looked really good, although I don’t think I’d want to study there – too posh for me. The daft thing is that the Park and Ride that I took into the city centre stops at 6pm so I wasn’t able to go to the cinema as the bus would have stopped before I got out the cinema 🙁
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Dear Sir
I am a year 11 pupil at the denes high school in lowestoft. I have been given an assigment about fruit and vegetables for my GCSE coursework.
I would be grateful for any information you could send me about friut and vegetables as my deadline is early in 2004 a prompt reply would be apprecuated.
yours faithly
katie
Fruit tastes nice, Vegetables often don’t.
“Carrot top” is a name often given to ginger people.
Would u be able to give me your adress and phone number because I am studying you with my school and my teacher mayby want to invite you to our school.
From Sarah…
DEAR Mr OLIVER
I AM INTERESTED IN OBTAINING YOUR PHYSICAL OR POSTAL ADDRESS SO THAT I CAN MAKE ENQUIRIES ON BEHALF OF MY DAUGHTER WHO WILL BE FINISHING 6TH FORM IN ZIMBABWE THIS YEAR AND HAS TWO CITY AND GUILDS DIPLOMAS IN FOOD PREPARATION. WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD ADVISE HER TO DO REGARDING FURTHER EDUCATION OR EMPLOYMENT IN THIS FIELD, AS SHE WISHES TO LIVE IN THE UK.
I WILL BE IN THE UK UNTIL 29TH APRIL 2004 AT 76 SOUTHLANDS CLOSE, COULSDON, SURREY CR52HX, TELEPHONE NUMBER 0208 763 1627.
ANY ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE YOU CAN GIVE ME WOULD BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
KIND REGARDS
AVRIL SHAW (MRS)
i just need to get in touch with jaime.
i just need to get in touch with jaime. please, tell me how i can get a t.v. hosting show. i am an avid dreamer, and i was born to do this. i admire you so much, and wish that you were available for help. i know that you are busy, and may not even receive this message, but anyone who is out there please give me tips on how to break into the business. i hope that oprah will get in contact with you, so that you know just how serious i am. thanks.
Dear jamie I am a huge fan of yours you are on the computer as a back ground and screen saver. I am hoping to get some of your cooking where for my birthday.
From felicity
P.S i live in South Australia, Australia and can i please please have your e-mail address or your postal address
Hi Jamie, I am a great fan of yours i have got all of your books and videos and i watch your show every Wednesday on c4. My dream is to visit your restaurant Fifteen for my eighteenth birthday. I like what your doing for the school dinners. The canteen at my school is rubbish. I hope you succeed when you visit 10 Downing street. Keep up the good work.Love Sarah xxxx
Hi Jamie, I attend St John Houghton School in Derbyshire, and a few friends and myself are starting a campaign against fatty foods. We are trying to stop our school canteen from selling items such as turkey twizzlers. We have put up posters around the school and have permission to do this from one of the teachers. We would like it very much if you could support our campaign. Would it be possible for you to contact me via my email address?
Thanks for taking time to read this and i look forward to hearing from you, Josh (age 12, almost 13)
Dear Jamie
I just wanna say i think its great what you are doing with school dinners , watching you prosess that meat turned my stomach and i have decided to start cooking from scratch myself , your not just having an effect on children your also having an affect on adults i am only 19 years old and if i can give up junk and kababs im sure other people can , im not gonna ask for an e-mail like most people have because lets face it im not gonna get one lol
bye bye for now and carry on with the good work
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School Dinners
Dear Jamie Oliver,
With all the news about school dinners I thought I would write in just to say what I had found when I came up with my own version of a fresh and healthy product to be served in a school canteen for children.
I’m a Year 11 GCSE student at Teignmouth Community College, Devon, I am studying Food Technology as one of my GCSE options. For my project I decided to investigate school dinners available today.
One lunch time I visited the local primary school and conducted a survey of meals eaten by the children. The results showed that the majority were choosing chips and chicken nuggets. A very small selection of cold salads was available, but the children were only allowed one slice of cucumber or one quarter of a tomato or one-two slices of peppers, etc which surprised and upset me.
I decided to research what nutrients are recommened for children and then set about designing my own product.
I based my product on a Shepherds Pie and adapted it. I went through many experiments and development work, but kept in mind what might attract children to the product. I thought of colour, flavour, texture presentation and nutritional value. I even designed my own product label and named it ‘Farmhouse Pie’.
In my final receipe I included a big variety of ‘hidden’ vegetables with turkey mince, a mixture of herbs, potato for the topping and with Red Leicester cheese. For my final product I produced a freshly made pie, just how I hope it would be made in a school canteen and then a mass produced pie, the difference in colour and flavour was amazing.
Unfortunately I am not allowed to carry out a taste in the school but my family loved my ‘Farmhouse Pie’.
Do you feel my type of product could be served at a school now the Government have increased the funding for each school child, as my product aim was to incourage children to eat more vegetables?
Kayleigh
Dear Jamie,
This is a long shot and i’m not sure if you will even get this but i am at university studying a module called ‘social issues in primetime t.v’ and have decided to research how ‘Jamies School dinners’ has affected public opinion on children and health issues. I know there is alot of information on the web but what i really want to do is conduct some interviews with anyone involved with the project. I wondered if you could help in any way or point me in the right direction. If anyone else reads this and thinks they can help contact me by e-mail on
[email protected]
Thanks.
Dear Jamie,
I have been watching your show on TV Dinners. I wish ti congratulate you on your initiative, Great idea Good Luck I use to cook in a long day care centre many years ago. I beleive we have to start young to instill good eating habbits. Iam now a family support worker and we run food for thought programs for socially and financially disadvantaged families. They Love it.
Keep up the good work
Cheers Diane Vernon
We are intrested in your help for school dinners at our school and need your help. please e-mail us and tell us how we can get involved.
Mr Oliver,
I am currently in a young enterprise project where the aim is to compete in making the best product, knowing you have are currently been attacking school dinners, and obesity is an on growing problem. We decided to base our product on that. And have come up with an interactive CD ROM ‘The Student Body’ which is based on how to keep a healthy life style showing ways of exercise and how to eat healthy whilst keeping a busy lifestyle. On behalf of the ‘Pro-Joe’ enterprize group i would be greatful if you could email me back asap giving a few words of your support on our product, i could also send u a complementary CD ROM. Yours Sincerely Tania (pupil of St.Josephs high school)
it’s your own stupid fault that people think you know or even *are* Jamie Oliver — you need to rephrase your blog you silly man.
You aren’t Jamie Oliver!!! Please will all you stupid people out there stop posting to this blog because he’s not Jamie and he has NO WAY of contacting Jamie!!
Hi Jamie,
I am a year 10 student at Holyrood Community School and I am studying food technology at GCSE level as part of my major project I need information on school meals and I would particularly like information on how I can make the school meals healthier which I thought you could help me with. I have to develop a range of healthy meals that will be appealing for students, taste nice and look nice! I am working on trying to make the meals cheap as I need to make a range of budget meals however I want the meals to be a good quality.
I hope I will hear from you very soon, Thank You for your time.
Yours Sincerely
Pupils at Holyrood Community School,
Chard,
Somerset,
Zembard Lane,
TA20 1JL.
A. W-Chalon. xx
Hi Jamie I can’t believe I am actually writing tis to you I am your biggest ever fan and I really want to meet you so that I can hug you and talk to you I am totally obsessed with you and your cooking. You are a fantastic chef and my dream is to eat at your restuarant please contact me I would love it and I mean LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE it if you sent me one e-mail back. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
lOVE YA JODY MARIE WADDON . X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK X X
Dear Jamie,
My name is Lisa and I love your show school dinners you have done a wonderful job not just for the children but for the whole country.
I live in Australia and know that our children don’t eat well at school. If you saw the things these children take for lunch you would die. I think that you should come to australia and work with me to get the australian schools to introduce school dinners in every school.
Australia is a very busy country and the children are suffering, being fed rubbish because it is quick and easy for the parents before they go off to work. I think Australia would welcome the school dinners with open arms because they would know their children are being properly nourished and this means their brains will retain more information helping them to learn, it will also help with sport, you always perform better when you’ve eaten a nutritious meal and not fatty junk.
Australia needs you it is a fact that this country has increased dramatically in childhood obesity, this is caused by feeding our children unhealthy fatty foods.
I would love to work with you and get this country and our children into shape.
Please email me and tell me what you think of my idea.