Jamie Oliver Dishes on Food Revolution's Second Season

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Apr 7th 2011 @ 11:00AM

Jamie Oliver Photo: Jeffrey Ufberg / WireImage

It's hard not to support Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Yeah, it's a reality show and all, but his motive seems pure: Get people off processed junk and teach them how to cook.

For the ABC show's second season, he's taking on Los Angeles, a city that hides its addiction to burgers and donuts behind a glam Hollywood facade. The editors of YumSugar sat down with Oliver recently to get the skinny on his new season. Find out why he thinks supermarkets should be giving schools 30K a year, and what happened this season that sent four people to the hospital.

Read the full story at YumSugar.com

Filed Under: Television/Film, Chefs
Tags: food revolution, jamie oliver

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4-07-2011 @3:43PM LR said... It's hard not to support Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. Yeah, it's a reality show and all, but his motive seems pure: Get people off processed junk and teach them how to cook.

Untrue on all points. The show is classist and fat-phobic, shaming people who have few options over something they shouldn't have to be ashamed of in the first place. If Jamie Oliver wants to change the way poor people eat, he needs to attack the system that creates poverty and food deserts, not the people victimized by that system.

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4-08-2011 @10:46AM Lindsay said... LR- You can't be a victim of something you choose to put in your cart, take home, and eat. You are in control. Or at least, we hope so.

Being 'poor' for lack of a better word does not mean all that is available is junk food. Frozen vegetables cost as much as a bag of chips. Local and in season products are most times very affordable. Does this mean only poor people or victims drink strawberry flavored milk and soda at school? He is trying to get across the point that this crap should NOT be options for children on an everyday basis where they make their own purchases. This is far from the root of the problem, but you have to start somewhere.
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