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British wunderkind chef Jamie Oliver started a restaurant called Fifteen. A non-profit restaurant, Oliver's goal was to take 15 untrained and unemployed young Londoners to help run the restaurant. Some were delinquents, another a single mom. The end result can be seen on Jamie's Kitchen, which airs tonight and every day this week at 10PM on the Food Network.
The restaurant raises money for Cheeky Chops, a charity Oliver formed, to help "unemployed young people by offering them a leg-up into the world of catering." Oliver's own lack of formal training and admission he's "not the brightest banana in the bunch" also played a role into his decision to try to create a first class restaurant with a bunch of novices. Oliver might be annoying as a TV personality, but this idea is pukka at heart. And Fifteen was even well-received by critics.
The Daily News looks at the Jamie's Kitchen; Oliver says, after mortgaging his home to help raise money for Fifteen's investment, "I've made ridiculously large amounts of money for a chef. The most real thing I've done is work with these kids. That's the thing that helps me sleep at night and keeps me grounded."
Fifteen is also the name of a Nickelodeon show from the 90s about life at age 15.
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He's doing a signing at the B&N on Union Square on Wednesday the 15th, too. Good timing! I'll be there, hoping he doesn't look as carb-faced in person as he has recently on TV.
Shoot, I'll be missing it as I'll be traveling to Denver from Chicago. Freaking business trip.
Jen, you have to explain your fascination with Anthony Bourdain when Jamie Oliver is clearly more worthy of the attention.
Remember that episode of Oliver's Twist when Jamie organized a good-bye party for his friend who was headed to Australia with the express hope that the food he prepared and the company he invited would be so great that his friend wouldn't leave town?
That's just so much more endearing than Bourdain waxing on about warm beer and doing time on "the thunder-bucket."
anyone else instantly think of that 70's classic "James at 15" (later, "James at 16") upon hearing the title of this show? Lance Kerwin even looks a little like Jamie Oliver --http://www.tvofyourlife.com/jamesat15.htm
to the unkind soul who called our dear jamie 'carb-faced': i hope you choke on a protein-rich, flavourless Atkins bar.
Awww... Jamie's sweet lisp and dough-boy face are enough to make me tune in every night this week... Unless anyone knows of a Jamie's Kitchen weekend marathon?
Bourdain's-a-Boor: Read Kitchen Confidential! I don't really like Bourdain's show but that book is utterly fantastic and goes a long way towards explaining what people-who-like-him like about him.
I always thought Jamie was unschooled, but in the second episode he takes the trainees back to his old catering college. He said he spent three years training in the Westminster College catering program. What's up with that?
I always thought when Jamie said he was unschooled he meant he had never taken his A/O levels nor had he attended the hallowed halls of English academia. I just assumed snooty Londoners didn't consider vocational colleges proper schooling.