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I love Indian cooking: Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver

He’s from <g data-gr-id="39">Britain,</g> but loves the Indian <g data-gr-id="37">dal</g>! Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who is venturing into the Indian space says he “loves Indian cooking”.

“I love Indian cooking. I’ve been experimenting for a few years now and whilst I’m no expert, I think I’m doing okay. I think a good dal is one of the best things you’ll ever eat,” said Oliver.

Asked about his expectations with his maiden foray into the Indian market, Oliver <g data-gr-id="49">said</g> “it’s an incredibly exciting move for us. We’ve wanted to open a restaurant in India for a few years now but we’ve been careful to wait until we found the right partner, location and sites. With regard to expectations, I just hope people love what we’re doing,” Oliver added.

“But I do want to offer guests fantastic food, using only the best ingredients and at an affordable price. We don’t cut any corners — everything we do comes back to quality,” he revealed.

Now, the question comes if he is trying to tinker with new, experimental menus to cater to the Indian taste buds. Oliver said: “We’re going to be keeping the menus to traditional Italian. We’ll be tweaking the offering very slightly by putting on lots more beautiful veggie dishes - something I’m really excited about.

Even as fusion menus that juxtapose seemingly diverse — and sometimes even disparate —flavours into a new combination are the talk of the town among foodies, Oliver comments that most of such dishes are “fusion without us even realising it”. Besides being a celebrity chef, Oliver has also carved his niche as a food activist and will be addressing obesity-related issues in a new documentary titled “Jamie’s Sugar Rush”. “At the beginning of this year I started looking at sugar consumption and the effect of sugar on our bodies. What I found completely shocked me and so myself and my team made a documentary about what too much sugar can do to us and the impact it’s having on Britain’s public health,” Oliver said about the theme of the documentary.

His team has even launched a petition asking the British government to introduce a sugary drinks tax. “So far we have over 130,000 signatures,” he added.

Talking about his plans on addressing the global obesity epidemic, Oliver said he has embarked on a path that can “implement positive change and attempt to slow down this crisis”.

“The path that I have taken has led me to focus a lot of my work on the obesity epidemic and what we can do in order to implement positive change and attempt to slow down this crisis.” 
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