Tags: Jamie Oliver

Look, I think the bril­liant and beau­ti­ful thing in life is that any­one can do any­thing,” he said. “When I used to go to spe­cial needs, we got laughed at, but we’re not sup­posed to all be aca­d­e­mic. What is edu­ca­tion? A bunch of stuff that peo­ple think we should know. Ulti­mately if you can put a wall up, if you can paint, if you can work with other peo­ple and, most impor­tant, if you find out what you are good at, that’s the key. Kids can do detailed, tech­ni­cal things, and they can do them well. Have you seen them on skate­boards and surf­ing? It doesn’t have to be a BMX, it can be a pot and a pan and a knife, but we wrap them up in cot­ton wool and treat them like babies and they’re not.

~ Jamie Oliver Puts America’s Diet on a Diet a bril­liant arti­cle and insight on Jamie on NYTimes​.com

Jamie Oliver has launched a new chain of food stores in the UK called Reci­pease. The first shop opened in Clapham last month with more planned to open through­out this year and next. The brand iden­tity and pack­ag­ing has been cre­ated by Williams Mur­ray Hamm.

Reci­pease, a new con­cept in UK retail, is a chain of food stores where shop­pers can pre­pare meals in store under the guid­ance of pro­fes­sional chefs. Like many of his tele­vi­sion shows, the stores are designed to inspire more peo­ple to take an inter­est in food and cooking

Is there any­thing this dude won’t do?

(via TheDieline​.com).