Jamie Oliver

The hottest young star of TV cookery, Jamie Oliver has wowed all generations of food lovers with his no-nonsense, ultra-tasty recipes. Jamie grew up surrounded by good food: his parents ran the Cricketers pub in Essex and, from the age of eight, he started cooking and helping the chefs. The use of quality fresh produce at the pub gave young Jamie a love of good ingredients. After an undistinguished school career, he decided he wanted to cook and went on to study at Westminster Catering College. It was around this time that he met Jools and they started dating. After college, he travelled to learn more about his trade in France. Jamie's apprenticeship to restaurant cooking came under some of the best chefs in London. To begin with there was Antonio Carluccio at the Neal Street Restaurant. Then, he moved on to the River Caf