The Food Revolution
April 12th, 2010
Long time no see!!
I meant to keep up with my blog while I was in Colorado, but it turns out that when you’re sitting across a table from your main reason for being online, ya lose the need to BE online. I barely touched my laptop the whole time but for checking email. I’ll be posting pictures soon!
Last night I was lounging in bed watching my favorite shows that recorded on my DVR while we were gone. I LOVE my DVR! I had 2 episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution to watch and I love getting to watch episodes back to back like that.
I watched the first 2 episodes of this new program and had remained unsure of my interest in it. I love the concept. I mean, better, healthier, unprocessed lunches offered from schools. That’s the most fantastic thing I’ve ever heard! Our lunch programs in public schools is deplorable. As Jamie learned this week, french fries are classified as vegetables in the school lunch line. It’s disgusting in my opinion. I wasn’t sure if I was terribly impressed with the show as a whole to begin with though. It kept my attention enough that I kept recording it.
We’re up to episode 4 now and I’m hooked. Jamie took the local radio DJ to the mortuary to see the XXXL caskets and talk disease. Then he introduced him to all these kids whose lives have been touched by obesity in some way and the loss they’ve had to experience because of it and he turned that guy around. You could see it dawning on him that he’d had no idea how bad it really is.
Anyway, I really love this show. I truly hope that he really HAS begun a food revolution. I believe that he has. During one of his interviews during the show he talks about how he started cooking because he just wasn’t good at anything else… And it made him feel alive and it made him light up inside when he did it. THAT is the reason I believe he could change the way America sees it’s food. It will be fantastic!!
Go check out his site http://www.jamieoliver.com/ and see his show on ABC Fridays at 9pm EST.
