He left school at age sixteen without qualifications and went on to attend Westminster Kingsway College, formerly Westminster College. Oliver then moved to The River Café, Fulham, as a sous chef, where he was noticed by the BBC in 1997 after making an unscripted appearance in a documentary about the restaurant, “Christmas at the River Cafe”. Putting up his house as collateral without telling his wife, Oliver created the Fifteen Foundation in 2002. Oliver’s efforts to bring radical change to the school meals system, chronicled in the series Jamie’s School Dinners, challenged the junk-food culture by showing schools they could serve healthy, cost-efficient meals that kids enjoyed eating. I buy from specialist growers, organic suppliers and farmers”.
