Jamie Oliver reveals first cookbook was ‘written on the back of beer mats’
metro.co.ukJamie Oliver has said his first cookbook was made out of recipes written on the ‘back of fag packs and beer mats’ left in a bin bag.The TV chef and restaurateur, 46, said if he ‘was a horse in a race, you would never have put a bet on me’, as he spoke ahead of the launch of his new TV show next week.Jamie will oversee a group of aspiring cookbook authors for The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver as they try to win a book deal.The seven-part series features home cooks, social media influencers and street food vendors competing for a book deal with Michael Joseph at Penguin Random House.The Channel 4 show has caused him to look back on his own beginnings, before his first of a staggering 25 cookbooks was released.He told Radio Times: ‘I was a special needs kid from school and I never thought I’d write a book.’Jamie’s breakthrough came with the BBC series, The Naked Chef, in 1999, but he was told: ‘Oh, it’s a shame.
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