Vegetarian Star

“I’ve given up on governments. But I have endless hope and faith in people once they are given knowledge and skills. I’ve certainly seen all over the world in many different communities that, once people have a few skills and confidence, they make different choices in the grocery store. Once they make different choices in the grocery store — and on the Main Street fast-food restaurants — then companies will be forced to serve a higher quality offer. That’s when the real change happens.”

–Jamie Oliver, who recently created “Food Revolution Day,” a holiday celebrated this month that encouraged people around the globe to cook without processed ingredients.

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Still planning the details for the Food Revolution event you’re hosting this weekend?

Actress Alyssa Milano has a few ideas for the date set by chef Jamie Oliver meant to raise awareness on cooking with natural, unprocessed ingredients for better health.

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Jamie Oliver set up mobile kitchens and invited entire cities to learn Food Network worthy cooking techniques on his ABC television series that aimed to improve the health of America, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

Now he’s encouraging everyone else to do the same through his national Food Revolution Day taking place May 19.

Whether it’s through hosting a dinner party or attending a registered food event, the goal of this holiday is to celebrate healthier, less-processed food and fight food related diseases like obesity.

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Jamie Oliver has promised to write a cookbook completely dedicated to vegetarianism.

But aspiring meatless Naked Chefs need not wait until the book is completed to get a few tips from the Food Revolution host on how to incorporate easy meals without flesh in their diets.

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Jamie Oliver put his culinary skills to good use recently when he prepared a vegan meal for Captain Paul Watson and the rest of the Sea Shepherd crew while they stayed in London.

The Captain wrote on his Facebook page, “A very big thank-you to Chef Jamie Oliver for treating the entire crew of the Steve Irwin to a free vegan dinner at Jamie’s Italian restaurant at Canary Wharf last night.”

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Jamie Oliver has had some trouble convincing the Los Angeles Unified School District to let him snoop in its cafeterias, but a recent decision by the board to overhaul the food system, along with a statement from LAUSD officials praising Oliver’s efforts, shows the district at least has the sense to listen to what the British celebrity chef has to say.

Approving a 5-year contract this week, LAUSD officials gave the boot to flavored milk and other processed foods and added soy milk and other vegetarian options to the menus.

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Jamie Oliver may have had a hard time getting the Los Angeles Unified School District to listen to him during his Food Revolution series, but at least LAUSD is listening to the needs of its vegetarian students.

This district is scheduled to vote today on a 50 million dollar, 5-year contract that will put more meatless items on the menu.

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If more people had Jamie Oliver as their home ec teacher, there would definitely be a lot more vegetarians graduating from high school these days.

Back after the brief hiatus ABC forced upon him to make room for D-list celebrities trying to dance, Oliver took his Food Revolution mission to transform America’s eating habits to a classroom, showing kids what all those processed ingredients and preservatives you can’t pronounce really are.

Like bugs. And bird feathers. And for the cannibals, human hair.

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