Jamie Oliver Quotes

Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.

Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I have for myself.

My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

Fight the staggering rise of type-2 diabetes by simply learning to cook healthy fresh food - it's fun, and it could save your life!

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!