{"id":494969,"date":"2010-03-31T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2010-03-31T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T12:20:32","slug":"%e2%80%9cjamie-oliver%e2%80%99s-food-revolution%e2%80%9d-can-be-hard-to-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494969","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJamie Oliver\u2019s Food Revolution\u201d can be hard to digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2921\" title=\"lrg_2219\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/lrg_2219-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"lrg_2219\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jamie Oliver&#8217;s Food Revolution,&#8221; which airs Fridays on ABC, is the oddest of mash-ups &#8212; part celebrity-chef hagiography, part reality TV straining with hackneyed tension, part underreported documentary, and 100 percent agitprop.<\/p>\n<p>It also makes you gape, cry and consider the ugliness and horrors of our broken food supply system.<\/p>\n<p>Repeating the work he has done with the British school lunch system, Oliver has chosen to film his six-week series in the town of Huntington, W.Va., a city that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has singled out as one of the most obese in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver blows into town dressed like a giant, tragically hair-moussed pea and talking of &#8220;revolution.&#8221; Children giggle, adults take umbrage.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s mission, after two episodes, appears to be threefold. The first, most dramatically rich, involves his attempts to remake the school breakfast and lunch programs at Central City Elementary School. Here we get pure reality TV boilerplate: the &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jamie Oliver&#8217;s Food Revolution,&#8221; which airs Fridays on ABC, is the oddest of mash-ups &#8212; part celebrity-chef hagiography, part reality TV straining with hackneyed tension, part underreported documentary, and 100 percent agitprop. It also makes you gape, cry and consider the ugliness and horrors of our broken food supply system. Repeating the work he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}