Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 2001, and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this Christmas is a chef, still only 26, but already four years into a highly successful television career,

he's made the kitchen a trendy place to be. His image is laddish, but his mission is serious. He's passionate about food, and it's his passion,

just as much as his winning TV manner that's brought him fame. He's won cooking awards, of course, Anna Bafter Award Award the W. H. Smith Book Award and the most stylish TV mail

award too. But food comes first. Of his admiring fans he asks, how can I make their lives taste a bit better he is the

naked chef Jamie Oliver it does seem to be a kind of crusade you have Jamie to

enthuse people about food as much as it entuses you?

Yeah I think so. I mean there was one stage when I thought about four years ago when I was

being asked to do telly. Let's try and make something of this. Slightly more selfish, let's get out of being skin. But very, very soon after it started,

it was much more back to how I used to feel when I was a kid and even though I was like 13 or 14,

I'd be responsible for training up the fresh

Comi chefs in from college or 21-22 year olds.

This is in your dance pub?

Yeah in dance pub and 21-22-year-olds look quite swarthy and kind of grown up when you're sort of 13.

And I had to teach them in a way that I wouldn't get my head kicked in and upset them.

So I developed this way of entusing and being quite bossy on a passion steak you know

but but why is food so important to you what is it can you describe why it excites you

food about as important to me as my music is or having a best friend I think your mouth

and your nose are really underrated senses and I and I think I just think eating good

food is really important to me and quite frankly I think God when when's lunch I can't wait what should I

all right I'm gonna go and get a sandwich all and make sure it's a crusty bap and I'll

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