JamieOliver.com
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Jamie Oliver
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About me
I was born in May 1975 and straight into the business, really. My dad runs a lovely pub-restaurant, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, where I grew up. 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 guess the chefs got sick of hearing me whining all the time, so when I was about seven or eight, they let me peel the potatoes and pod peas, that kind of thing. By the time I was 11, I wasn't half bad at veg prep and I could chop like a demon! Amazingly, although I loved hanging around with my mates going fishing and climbing trees, I still thought that the kitchen was the best place to be. A lot of the boys at school thought that cooking was a girlie thing. I didn't really care, especially as I could buy the coolest trainers with what I'd earned from working at the weekend.
When I was 16, I didn't really have the results to stay on at school - besides, I knew by then that I wanted to be a chef. So I went to Westminster Catering College and then did some time in France, learning as much as I could, before coming back to London to work as head pastry chef for Antonio Carluccio at The Neal Street Restaurant. I was really fortunate to have the chance to work at such a renowned restaurant so early on in my career and I made the most of it. My good mate Gennaro Contaldo worked there and he would be up at the crack of dawn making bread and pasta for the restaurant, so I would join him before my shifts to learn as much as I could. He taught me how to make the best focaccias and genius fresh pasta, which I still love to make now.
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- 19-21 Nile St
- London N1 7LL UNITED KINGDOM
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- Fresh & Happy Digital, Mike Frost
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