The third annual Jamie Oliver Food Revolution contest came to a close last night. I anxiously awaited to see who won as I had joined in the good educational cause and was excited at the chance to learn from the master of community outreach cooking. Drumroll please ... " And the winner is............" not me... or is it?
From Mr Oliver there is a lot to take home and not just a new recipe for short ribs. The Food Revolution Day broke the Guinness World Record for the largest food venue in history. In a just a few years, Jamie Oliver has changed the way children eat at home and in schools around the world. He is greatly respected by his fellow chefs in the field and many foodies like myself.
Last year $180,000 was collected to support education. Mr Oliver is to be congratulated for keeping an earnest, warm childlike sense of awe amid all the hullaballoo. However more commercialized his brand becomes it never seems to lose its positive tangible effect on how we relate to children, through good food. He is to family cooking what Oprah Winfrey became to group reading, a multi-media voice joining like-minded people together in classes, in clubs and at social events that overcome boundaries, borders, and backwardness.
I have to admit I can't really watch him anymore. The more time goes by the more cooking ideas are brewing and simmering in the kitchen. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking with my own child where I am learning from her how the creative process starts with the simplest ingredient: joy in doing.
The Food Revolution is granting new freedoms and changing the meaning of work in the kitchen. What was once considered KP, Kitchen Patrol, a slip of paper under your plate that meant you had the duty to "cook, clean and serve" now means "come, create, and compete." The winner of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution contest is everyone who joins in.
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