Jamie Oliver: Together: Celebration
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Wednesday, December 31 on Food Network (43)
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Celebration
Season 1, Episode 1
The chef prepares the perfect meals for social events, beginning with a celebratory meal for family and friends to make up for 18 months of missed family milestones. He showcases a slow-roasted, rolled shoulder of lamb with a fennel, sage and spicy sausage stuffing, drizzled with a herby green sauce made with pistachio, mint and parsley. On the side, Jamie pairs it with crispy lemon roast potatoes, garlicky dressed French beans and a thyme and apricot sauce. He also creates rainbow tomato crostini topped with crumbly cheese, mango caipirinha cocktails, and individual yoghurt panna cottas with elderflower strawberries and a crushed biscuit crumb
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Jamie Oliver
(Presenter)
Katie Millard
(Series producer)
Niall Downing
(Series director)
Samantha Beddoes
(Executive producer)
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Did You Know..
Jamie Oliver
(Presenter)
Born:
May 27, 1975
in
Clavering, Essex
Best Known For:
Making school dinners healthy.
Early-life:
Born James Trevor Oliver on May 27, 1975, in Essex. He comes from a close-knit family and has described his childhood as very happy. His parents own a pub-restaurant in Clavering and Jamie helped out in the kitchen from a young age under the watchful eye of his dad Trevor, who encouraged him to become a chef. He studied cooking at Westminster College and then won an apprenticeship at the Neal Street Restaurant in London. He went on to work at the River Cafe for three and a half years.
Career:
Oliver's first foray into TV was the 1999 BBC series The Naked Chef. In 2002, he started a new, non-profit restaurant, 15, which would be staffed by previously unemployed youngsters whom he had trained. This project was documented in the Channel 4 TV series, Jamie's Chef. He followed it with Jamie's School Dinners, which inspired him to begin a campaign to improve Britain's school meals. He took it to the top and famously met Tony Blair to discuss the subject, which resulted in the former prime minister pledging to spend £280m on school dinners over the next three years. He has continued to produce a variety of popular cookery programmes, and has successfully cracked the American market.
Quote:
"For me, cooking is like breathing. I don't eat to live, I live to eat."
Trivia:
In 2013, Oliver was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.
Katie Millard
(Series producer)
Niall Downing
(Series director)
Samantha Beddoes
(Executive producer)
