Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 06 March
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed our children and ourselves. For more than a decade his books and TV series have inspired millions across the world to cook from scratch using fresh ingredients, and to enjoy the pleasure of eating great food. This event is Jamie’s only public-speaking engagement in Australia this year.
In recent years, through his campaigns and his charity, the Jamie Oliver Foundation, Jamie has created initiatives to teach people how to cook delicious, nutritious food. Most notably, his Ministry of Food centres are spreading throughout the UK and also in Australia thanks to support and funding from The Good Guys.
With the obesity epidemic growing globally, and most governments seemingly unable to tackle the problem, Jamie is using his influence to bring attention to the changes we need to make to our lifestyles and diet. Campaigns such as School Dinners and Ministry of Food combine his culinary tools, cookbooks and television with more standard activism and community organising to create change on both an individual and governmental level.
Jamie Oliver will be joined in conversation by food journalist and television personality Matt Preston.
Photo © David Loftus
Featuring
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parent’s pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight and has since worked with some of the world’s top chefs.
He is now running Fifteen - one of the best restaurants in London and the subject of the television series Jamie’s Kitchen.
Jamie has written for The Times, as well as for GQ and Marie Claire magazines. He currently writes for Delicious magazine in the UK and Australia.
He also started, and continues to be involved with the Fifteen Foundation, which provides training and mentoring for disadvantaged young people - allowing them to follow their dreams and become chefs.
Jamie lives in London with his wife, Jools, and their four children.
Matt Preston
Matt Preston is an award-winning food journalist, restaurant critic and television personality. Best known as a judge and co-host of MasterChef Australia, Preston is also a senior editor for delicious and taste magazine.
Preston has now appeared in six series of the ratings success MasterChef series, as well as one series each of Celebrity MasterChef, Junior MasterChef and MasterChef Allstars. In 2013, he hosted the newest series in the franchise, MasterChef: The Professionals with Marco Pierre White, which was named Australia’s Best Reality Show in this year’s AACTA Awards.
MasterChef Australia and its Australian variants are shown in over 170 countries around the world – from Venezuela and the Philippines to the Sudan, the UK and Scandinavia. With a total worldwide audience of over 180 million viewers, MasterChef Australia is also the highest rating English speaking program in India – with over 3 million viewers making Matt, George and Gary stars on the sub-continent.
Matt writes a national column for the Taste section of all News Ltd metropolitan papers. He is active on social media, and has a highly involved following of 170,000 fans on both Facebook and Twitter. He is also a keen tennis player … but due to an extreme lack of talent, he is extremely unlikely to ever win a wild card slot for the Australian Open.