on his new show because first graders didn’t know the difference between a tomato and a potato. (I can understand that, actually.) Jamie Oliver, that is, now bringing his food revolution to the US where, I’m sure, his victims will be just as defensive – if not more – than those here, like the mom I heard about who snuck her kid a chip buttie (i.e., a French fry sandwich) because she worried he wasn’t getting enough to eat in Jamie’s school program.
I’m curious; has anyone seen this show? Is it as bad as at least one of the commenters suggested?
Emily Drinking Tea 
I love Jamie Oliver! More veggies and healthy food at school! How will that hurt anyone? I watched his show to change cafeteria food in England and loved it! I still have to watch the show here but I’m definitely signing up for next episode!
Having been indirectly involved in the US farm to school movement for about a decade, I can tell you that a lot of people I know are pretty PO’d about Jamie Oliver’s self-promotion, which completely ignores the tremendous strides of non-profits, community based organizations, and, yes, even government entities in bringing about significant change in school procurement policies in the past few years. Just sayin’.
Yes, it seems that his advance people didn’t really do their homework, to put it kindly! His being British doesn’t help. I confess that the question I posed was a leading one; he has always rubbed me the wrong way, probably because he is so self-promotional (and now of course he’s making lots of money promoting Sainsbury’s, a not-very-friendly supermarket chain that unfortunately were the only local store to be selling matzo and a few other Pesach things).