Duchess of Cornwall joins Jamie Oliver at banquet for 'everyday heroes'

Описание: (22 Mar 2017) DUCHESS OF CORNWALL JOINS JAMIE OLIVER AT BANQUET FOR 'EVERYDAY HEROES'
The Duchess of Cornwall got a speedy lesson in salad preparation from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver at Billingsgate Market in London, Tuesday (21 MARCH 2017).
The royal served the results to one of the many 'everyday heroes' feasting at a banquet served up by business leaders at the UK CEO CookOff, held in support of two food-related charities, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, and UK Harvest.
The duchess was announced at the Patron of UK Harvest this month.
"There's two charities here tonight, UK Harvest and my foundation," explained Oliver. "Mine's about food education, growing, cooking and getting kids to understand where food comes from and how it affects their bodies and UK Harvest is about how do we stop waste."
Emma Bunton was among those joining teams preparing a three course banquet under the watchful eye of well-known chefs, including Angela Hartnett and Gennaro Contaldo.
600 people who work in schools and hospitals in the UK enjoyed the fruits of their labor.
"Everyday heroes that are looking and serving the public at large, doctors, surgeons, nurses, you name it, organizations that look after problems in certain areas around the country, So part of this event is loving people that don't get paid much, or anything, to really give a lot," said Oliver.
Rising food star Melissa Hemsley - who together with sister Jasmine is championing healthy eating through their books and TV show, after founding bespoke catering service Hemsley and Hemsley - is impressed with Oliver's ability to pull people together in aid of good causes.
"Well I just walked past him and he was making a crowd of about 40 wet themselves," she smiled. "He's just a really nice person, isn't he? He's really lovely and I think, I imagine every chef - I see there's tons of volunteers taking part, everyone - I think that everyone would do something for charity if they had guidance and I think that Jamie with his big foghorn of power of social media goes, guys, if you all want to do something nice, why don't you join me? And so he kind of sets things out in a way that's very come together-able. Is that a word?"
Oliver would like to see the U.K. government get on the bandwagon.
"Sadly at the moment, we, you know it's down to the public and businesses to do everything. We want a government that kind of follows in suit and kind of puts child health at the heart of everything they do. That's not happening at the moment, but you know - this looks like fun and a jolly, which it is, but it's also about people respecting each other and learning about the complications of how do you do good stuff and not waste it."
"Well it is so important, food waste," agreed Contaldo, "you see my generation, we never wasted anything. Nothing at all. Even my mother, when there was some bread left, she would cut me a slice, she used to put them out in the sun for three days and we used to keep them all year and it was nice to eat with milk."
"My mum's from the Philippines," recalled Hemsley, "she's Catholic, she used to have this thing growing up where she'd say 'Every grain of rice' and I had to eat every grain of rice on my plate," , "and my dad was an army - we grew up in army barracks - so you couldn't, if an apple was 99 percent moldy, we had to eat that one percent, so growing up my whole life - you know Sunday roast? I didn't have a Sunday roast, I had Sunday leftover soup."
Fellow chef Angela Hartnett advises thinking twice before clearing out your fridge.
The charity event raised more than half a million pounds.


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