throughout Jamie Oliver's career he's become
a divisive figure pissing off a generation of school kids and culinary Wizards I can't
wait for our paast to cross and I'll remind him what he said cuz I'll wipe the floor
with him I really will he's the boy who lived but didn't get any Michelin stars
from day one he's been The Golden Boy of the TV food World despite not having the
same pedigree as some of his peers which has often ruffled a few feathers so he hated
me and this is what happens time and time again and then Jamie was born on the 27th of May 1975 in
clevering Essex he grew up surrounded by food as his parents Trevor and Sally owned a local pub
called the cricketers it was at this Pub where he was exposed to the fast-paced kitchen environment
from an early age spending much of his childhood helping out in the kitchen absorbing the skills
and Tech techniques that would later Define his cooking style after leaving school jimie attended
the prestigious culinary school Westminster College where he honed his skills and developed
a deeper understanding of classical cooking techniques despite many critics like myself
jimie did actually work in several high-profile restaurants in London after graduating one of
his most formative points in his career was his role as a pastry chef for Antonio carlucho Neil
Street restaurant it was at this restaurant where Jamie gained two mentors jaro contaldo and Antonio
himself the pair were both highly respected chefs who specialize in the Staples of Italian cuisine
it was during this time under Antonio and janaro that their philosophies began to infect Jaimie
and ignite his love for Italian food developing a deep appreciation for simple fresh ingredients
that would later all become the base of Jaime's Italian Empire at the age of 23 jaie moved
from Neil Street to another well-known Italian restaurant in London called The River Cafe which
was run by British chef Ru Rogers and her business his partner Rose gray this experience working
as a sue chef at the River Cafe proved to be a major turning point in his career as not only
did the restaurant emphasize on high quality seasonal ingredients which further embedded
Jaime's approach to food it was also where he caught the eye of TV producers in 1997 the BBC
was filming a documentary called Christmas at the River Cafe which featured Jamie working along roof
we've got a a menu that changes twice a day and it's it's extremely season know it can change in
a matter of days and weeks the whole what we can get hold of you know bit passley we got the deal
that we picked earlier the sorl in here and as far as I'm concerned as a chef you know it's the best
job cuz not only do uh we have new things to cook every day but we actually have a hand in right in
the menu as well ja's natural Charisma and relaxed style of cooking stood out to the TV Executives of
the documentary which soon led to them approaching Jamie with the opportunity to develop his own
cooking show which meant switching out the stress filled environment of a commercial kitchen to the
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Chef despite the title the show wasn't about cooking without clothes on but rather stripping
food down to its Bare Essentials obviously taking a lot of inspiration from his work experience the
idea of the show was to make simple Fresh and Easy to make meals it was a massive success leading
to multiple seasons and the publication of his first cookbook under the same title the book then
became a bestseller it particularly resonated with the younger generation and beginners who found
traditional cooking intimidating I'll be real I think every single household had this book at
one point in time there wasn't a mom who didn't fall for this charming young man's propaganda
within the space of a year Jamie had gone from a complete unknown to TV's Golden Boy in the same
year as Jamie bursting onto the scene another chef from across the pond was beginning his own journey
into Fame 1 2 3 4 5 6 this Chef was called Anthony bouraine arguably one of the coolest and most
troubled chefs to ever live now known primarily for combining his fascinating perspective on
travel through the lens of food Anthony worked for decades in the turbulent restaurant industry
working a whole number of jobs while battling addictions this unfiltered knowledge of knowing
what it's really like to live and work in the underbelly of the restaurant world along with his
burning passion for writing led him to write an article for the New Yorker titled don't eat before
reading this the brutally honest and witty article led to him getting a book deal allowing him to
expand on his experiences this book of course went on to become his iconic Memoir Kitchen
Confidential which detailed stories of drug fueled shifts fights and the Cutthroat nature
of the business the book went on to top the New York Times bestseller list and overnight was
considered a cult phenomenon and a complete Game Changer in the food writing genre this ultimately
led to TV opportunities and launched Anthony into stardom at the mature age of 43 however being a
lover of the UK and the food scene at that point in time Anthony gave his opinion on Jamie Oliver
hairless young blonde lad named Jamie Oliver who is referred to as the Naked Chef as best as I can
comprehend he's a really rich guy who pretends to scoot around on a Vesper hangs out in some East
End cold watered flat and Cooks green TI Curry for his maze he's a TV chef so few actually eat
his food I've never seen him naked I believe the term naked refers to his simple straightforward
unadorned food though I gather a great number of matron Housewives would like to believe
otherwise every time I watch his show I want to go back in time and Bully him at school in
a recent podcast interview with Louie THU Jamie responded to Bourdain's opinions of the Naked Chef
and how it felt to be disrespected by someone he really admired you meet people you love and often
they're like they clearly think you're a wanker I mean Anthony was a tough one for me because the
first book that I ever nearly read so like from a dislexic point of view like it's not that I can
read of course like if you give me a recipe I can read it's like I'm on that words you know they're
tracking them and just concentration is tricky but to commit to a narrative book and be part of that
story and be submerged into it I've never had it's not an emotion that I I I do through audio books
but literally got just over halfway through I was in I was going to read my first book at the
age of 27 and lit I'm not exaggerating I was on my honeymoon and as I put the book down on
the Amalfi Coast with my new wife double page spread just absolutely brutally destroyed me and
I'm like it's happened again I never finished the book cuz it was just like you know how can I like
it was just like [ __ ] but also he was Co and I I really loved his work and you know actually
I kind of felt that he a lot of the TV that he made felt like some of the energy that you had in
your work and I just loved it it was sort of under the skin of things and and and it was about
culture and I loved him to bits but I knew he thought I was a wang so that's that's a tricky
that's quite hard to swallow so you just sort of have to almost forget it in the Memoir Tony
would continue the big dogs in England the good guys the people actually cooking in restaurants
which is what chefs are supposed to do isn't it the folks actually fighting the good fight and
what's really interesting about the English food scene swaggering eccentric aggressive competitive
often brilliant the big dogs Tony is referring to is of course the Jedi and Apprentice pairing of
Marco Pi Y and Gordon Ramsey if you want to find out about their origin story and bitter rivalry I
made a separate video which you should definitely check out however over the course of Jim's career
he hasn't exactly made things easy for himself PR wise getting himself involved in controversial
campaigns and in drama with the big dogs in 2007 jimie branded Marco py as a psychological bully
for his behavior towards contestants on Hell's Kitchen which went well I stepped into the kitchen
after 7 and a half years into Hell's Kitchen and I inspired people to want to to cook I was not a
psychological bully and I'd like him to see him do it to say it to my face cuz I'll wipe the floor
with him I really will I can't wait for our pal to cross and I'll remind him what he said if those
words weren't harsh enough Marco's prote Gordon Ramsey also had a complex relationship with
the new kid on the blog publicly trading bars with jime throughout his career it all started in
2009 when Jaimie criticized Ramsey for comparing Australian journalist Tracy Grimshaw to a pig
while Gordon did extend an apology to to the journalist he didn't hold back his views about
Jamie branding him as a onepot wonder and that everything just kind of gets mixed in hands in
it's a very different style to me he sticks it in the oven comes back 3 hours later and it's done
we cook differently I use basic ingredients taken up with a lot more excitement but competition is
healthy it's good to have that kind of rivalry many stabs would be made by both chefs throughout
the years with Jamie saying that Gordon's wife Tina's cookbook was better than anything that
he produced and Gordon critiqued his attempt to move into the fine dining space Calling Jamie a
cook rather than a chef and also throwing shade at his political activism it's all very well to spout
off now about sugar tax and supermarkets none of that was spoken about when he was labeled slapping
with Saints Brees for 10 years and no disrespect but we're chefs we're not politicians when you
breathe that stuff down the Public's throw and say I'm leaving if we have brexit then I'm sorry
the door stands open stand for what you say sadly the only time he opens his mouth is when he's
got something to promote despite this they have both acknowledged each other's influence
on The Culinary world and Gordon even offered his sympathies at the claps of Jaime's Italian
Empire however their vastly contrasting Styles and approach to food would seem as what's kept
them from fully bonding if you contrast all this with an episode from one of Bourdain's earliest
tv shows where he visits Ramsay's restaurant in London it's clear to see there's almost a Brothers
in-arms Bond and respect between the chefs Gordon Ramsey is considered to be the best chef in
England end of story that's he is operating at a pitch and at a level that requires nothing
but Excellence famously embracive and brilliantly talented it's a pain in the ass to make a great
consum but Gordon's done it the caviar only makes it that much better that should stuff him but KN
him he eats like a horse so I'm sure he'll find room somewhere oh my god look how the beef breaks
oh yeah he's walking that tight rope between being perfect and Overkill I like that this is one
of the best things I've eaten ever it's really extraordinary my trip to London has been an
enlightening experience today's British Cuisine Embraces Traditions that are the best of both old
and new I can imagine for a lot of these Elite chefs their thought process of Jamie is like
being a soldier without seeing battle are you even really a solder if you don't do what you're
trained for despite the initial harsh words from bouraine and his writing Anthony publicly praise
Jaime School food revolution in his book medium raw Jamie Oliver puts his money where his mouth
is he clearly preferred to be an annoying nag than make more money sure he still bring down plenty
of do but you've got to respect a guy who manages to embarrass the government with a show about what
school kids are actually eating that kind of talk will eventually make you unpopular it's very
rarely a good career move to have a conscience most chefs I know where Jamie is on successo Meer
they' be held up at a Four Season somewhere Shades drawn watching hookers snort off each other
Anthony makes some very good points here you have to respect a guy who makes endless amounts
of money but is actually trying to make some net positive changes to the world before even publicly
praising jimie for his efforts at the Miami food festival Bourdain personally apologized for
everything he said about the Naked Chef I think I agreed for the Observer food monthly or something
like that I agreed to have a journalist with me for a weekend in Miami for the food festival
and it's like oh what's Jamie doing in America so have a journalist next to you for floody 72
hours really clever idea and uh day one we go in there and we're walking behind the scenes and
this is all these Mars on the beach and like loads of chefs from around America and I'm the only Brit
there sort of representing doing demos and getting everyone going and 150 M ahead of me Bourdain's
walking up I'm like oh [ __ ] it's going to kick off like it's going to end up in a scrap this is
going to be a nightmare got a [ __ ] journalist next to me and then as he got to like 20 M he
started making and as he got to 10 m he just went into this speech about getting it wrong and that
uh he apologized profusely for everything that he'd done but to have that apology was epic for me
it was it was so epic and it meant such a lot and as we w we got hugged the wife L rela relieved
and said see you at the bar tonight and we had we had a good night on the Raz and as we walked
off I just looked at the journal and said might as well go home now the ironic thing about all of
these chefs is that they have or had unbelievably successful TV careers so to dislike Jamie Oliver
for the very thing that they participated in is a bit hypocritical and basically what happened
is and this is an absolute fact is they hated cuz I was a TV chef but what happens is from a
technical Point our point of view like the Naked Chef series 1 six half hour programs season 2 and
three eight half hour programs all I did smashed it Global like 30 countries like buzzing by this
time Bourdain was doing like 80 shows a year so he hated me and then became me and this is what
happens time and time again it's like that you know you always hate what's on the other side
and they all say I'll never do TV they all do they all do they all change it's a good point they
all basically make the same shows anyway well yes bouraine did it better than than anyone if you
take a celebrity chef put them in a different country and have them try food congratulations
you have a generic cooking show be know what that's fine you don't need to reinvent the whe
in reality the TV cooking world is a load of bollocks the people watching are never going
to actually try anything that's being cooked It's Entertainment Bourdain hit the nail on the
head when it comes to celebrity chefs and their TV shows you know cookbooks and television shows
about food I mean most of people who watch your show they're never going to eat your cake they've
never eaten your cakes and they never are going to but they love your show anyway it for better
or worse I mean and I say this to somebody who's milking this celebrity chef [ __ ] for everything
I can get um very happily it's the new pornography it's people seeing things on TV just watching
people make things on TV that they're not going to be doing themselves anytime soon just like
B to the extent to which you can change hearts in Minds to which you can convince people you know
however silly food television may be to the extent to which you can get somebody to try something
new eat out of their comfort zone go to a good restaurant order something they might not you know
eat a cheek or a hoof or a Jou or something like that then then that's a win for the good guys so
I think even at its very worst you know however ridiculous this phenomena might be I think it's
on balance good for the world most people today still consider Jamie Oliver to be more of a
cook or a TV chef rather than an experienced veteran who's in the front lines of battle
for decades which is true he hasn't he worked in highly respected restaurants but got famous
so young that it didn't allow him to be molded under the same pressure as some of his peers
Jamie became pop music and the big dogs were rock and roll while culturally rock and roll may
be more significant there is a reason why it's called pop but on the other side he also really
hasn't helped himself with his own reputation which if you want to find out more about is
well documented on this channel I mean there is a million reasons that you could try and force
an agenda against Jamie but at the end of the day you can't say he doesn't give a [ __ ] which is
the true Mark of a professional no matter how much money and influence you gain you stick to
your principles and elevate your craft despite not having the same pedigree he should definitely
be respected no matter how terrible his recipes are thank you so much for watching this video it
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