Explore Quotes by Jamie Oliver

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is _x000D_ ingredients.

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.

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!

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

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

Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've cooked just about everything really.

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

I hate making TV documentaries.

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.

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

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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

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