Jamie Oliver is a chef and the second bestselling cookbook author in England, behind JK Rowling. His newest book, 5 Ingredients Mediterranean, is out now. We chat about eating a 14-year-old strawberry, Chris had a tough flight to Los Angeles, perp walking writers, where Jamie’s dining in New York, how he has such great hair, how he writes a book every year, the joy of cooking is unfortunately dying, the one thing he won’t eat, beetroots, rude boys and boy racers, muscle confusion, Ibiza Tea, working to pass through clean water bills while living in Los Angeles, his car collection, his musical history, when you run into a geezer at the farmer’s market, and how he fought for Neneh Cherry’s Buffalo Stance.
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