Jamie Oliver Quotes

Jamie Oliver provides cooking tips in a straightforward, helpful style.

13 quotes

  1. From Cooking Q&A [1]:

  2. Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

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

  4. Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process, is being given to human beings.

  5. 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.

  6. My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

  7. Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

  8. It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

  9. Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

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

  11. 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.

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

  13. I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.