Jamie Oliver has confirmed he will be visiting Australia in early March.
The good food campaigner and celebrity chef will be here to savour some of the local flavours on offer and visit his Ministry of Food centres across the country.
In a bid to solve the obesity epidemic in Australia, with one in four children overweight and one in three obese, the Victorian government spent $40 million last year on the campaign to educate people about proper health and nutrition.
Oliver has travelled across England and the United States to bring the importance of proper nutrition to the front of everyone’s attention, particularly with regards to school lunches and available products in school canteens.
It will be the celebrity chef’s first visit to Australia since 2010, and he will be officially launching his new Italian restaurant in Sydney while he is here.
The restaurant is focused on the same principles Oliver’s other restaurants, television shows and cookbooks revolve around: using high-quality, local, organic ingredients.
Oliver will arrive in Brisbane on 43 March, before heading to Sydney for two days and spending his final two days in Melbourne.