England’s Prince Harry arriving home from Afganistan this week asked for UK chefs, Jaime Oliver in particular, to come up with a way to make field rations taste better.

From the Mirror:

Prince Harry has thrown down the gauntlet to chefs including Jamie Oliver to give frontline troops in Afghanistan a taste of home.

Arriving home yesterday he asked Britain’s cooks to come up with a bangers-and-mash option for soldiers living on ration packs.

“Rations are miserable,” he said. “Bangers and mash with gravy in a bag would be brilliant,” he said. Responding to the suggestion that Jamie Oliver might oblige, he said: “Yeah, Jamie, please.”

And lastly, Jaime Oliver’s new television show began last night in Australia, called Jamie’s Kitchen Australia.

From TV New Zealand:

Jamie Oliver is set to open a new Fifteen restaurant in Melbourne. He enlists the help of Fifteen’s original Head Chef, Tobie Puttock.

The selection process for 20 under-privileged trainees begins and the hunt for the perfect Fifteen restaurant site commences.

{09 Mar 2008}