In December 2009 Oliver Received The 2010 TED Prize
Jamie Oliver’s speciality is Italian cuisine, although he has a broad international repertoire. 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”. Oliver’s holding company, Sweet As Candy, has made enough profit for Oliver to have been listed on The Sunday Times list of richest Britons under 30. in December 2009, Oliver received the 2010 TED Prize. 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. in July 2010, Jamie regained the top spot and has been named as the most powerful and influential person in the UK hospitality industry once again. Oliver is a patron of environmental charity Trees for Cities.
