Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, ABC’s new reality show, has an educational agenda. But its British star isn’t a Professor Higgins who’s come to ridicule the way the locals speak in West Virginia, locale of the show’s premiere. Not at all. Jamie Oliver, English chef, cooking show star, and cookbook author, projects nothing if not sincerity in his mission to help American children want to eat healthy food to stave off an increasing epidemic of obesity and diabetes. The son of pub owners and the equivalent of a high school drop-out, this driven foodie has one obsessive aim---to get young Americans to actually care about what they eat. For Oliver, the younger the pupil is, the better his chances for conversion will be. And he’s willing to do what it takes---even running through a field dressed as a giant green pea pod with pre-schoolers. Regardless of its star’s interloper status, it would be hard for anyone who cares about the health of children not to be rooting for this show’s success. And as for Oliver, any such outsider perception is irrelevant. As this loveable revolutionary puts it, “I’m not here as an English person, I’m here as a human.”
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, ABC, Fridays, 9 PM ET
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