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Acting like a big kid... Jamie Oliver jumps on a Micro scooter for a jolly ...

Jamie Oliver took his life in his hands when he headed out on an expedition for groceries using a child's toy.

The 36-year-old TV chef took charge of the Micro scooter and set out to grab some fish, presumably for one of his many kitchen concoctions. 

Wearing a red check jacket, baseball cap, combat trousers and trainers the Jamie made his merry way to the fishmongers, scooting along Primrose Hill at top speed.

Quite the daredevil, he weaved in and out of scaffolding and mounted the pavement via a small ramp on his route home.

Jamie's mode of transport is a Micro scooter, which is available to both children and adults in a variety of designs.

The chef's model appears to be the Micro Bullet Scooter which is suitable for ages 5 to adult.

According to the Micro website, 'with its larger 120mm wheels and Abec 5 bearings the Bullet is capable of serious speed.'

So perhaps Jamie should have worn a helmet and protective clothing for his jaunt to the fishmonger.

As for what he may have cooked up in the kitchen, there's a veritable smorgasboard of recipes to choose from.

Included on Jamie's list of seafood-based delights are dishes like baked White Fish With Olives & A Simple Tomato Sauce and the mouth-watering South American Fishcakes.

And although his TV show was cancelled by television executives last month, the city's school board has announced it will stop serving corn dogs, chicken nuggets and a list of other unhealthy foods, in favour of protein-packed sushi.

The push for healthier food options in schools swept across the U.S. on the heels of Oliver's televised efforts on ABC's Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, which followed his attempts to overhaul food menus in U.S. schools.

Oliver scored a significant victory in April, when L.A. schools superintendent John Deasy appeared alongside the celebrity chef on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to announce plans to ban flavoured milk -  which contain more sugar per ounce than a can of soda.

Meanwhile, next month Jamie Oliver hosts The Big Feastival on Clapham Common in London.

The three-day event promises music from Soul II Soul, food from celebrity chefs and lots to do with tickets starting at just £35.

For more information visit www.thebigfeastival.co.uk

Wouldn't it be great to see the next picture with parents taking kids to school on their space hoppers, or doing the school run on a very long skateboard or shopping on roller skates. 1970's cool toys in very boring colours come back!!! Life was definately more simplistic and enjoyable & used up a lot of energy. Oh & if you're by the school gates parking up with your skateboards be careful of the cats cradle, skipping, hop skotch & 'jacks' & marble games going on, we wouldn't want an accident now lol!!!

Why Soul Food Recipes Websites Offering More Videos | The Best ...

Soul food recipes have an extra ally working to increase their popularity and user-friendliness. It’s not microwave ovens, pre-mixed desserts or frozen side dishes. It’s video. Like many other web properties, and industries in general, video is driving the popularity of more and more soul food recipe sites.

One bright side of the economic downturn is more people are forced to cooking more meals at  home instead of eating out. For example, based on a recent University of California study, they  estimated a family can save up to 53%-72% off their monthly  food  bill by cooking the same meal at home.  This simple fact alone continues to influence more people to catch the cooking bug.

As more people re-discover the joy of soul food cooking and the thrill of saving money,  the need for quicker and faster ways to learn grows in demand. More people find learning by video fills the demand for absorbing information faster than reading. This is especially true when it comes to following a recipe.

The Advantage of Video Recipes

People are discovering many advantages, but the main one is ease of use. It’s much easier to follow step-by- step with the expert on the video. You can see the little nuances the written recipes themselves often miss. For example, how the expert holds the spoon., or how they the mix, flip or fold the food so it doesn’t spill. There’s also the all important example of what to do if you miss one of the steps in the recipe and seeing with your own eyes how the expert corrects it.

What The Final Product Looks Like

An advantage a written recipes can’t duplicate is seeing how the final product looks, the only thing missing is the smell and taste. But other than that recipe videos is the next best thing to being there.. As more websites bring videos online, the technology is sure to advance.

Many websites not only offer videos on demand,  many have started testing video -by-request, where the visitor can request a video of a specific recipe.  Of  course the written recipe isn’t going anywhere, videos are not predicted to totally replace them anytime soon. But they do play an important roll in enhancing the written recipes.

As soul food recipe websites grow more competitive, the bar continues to rise on service to the end consumer. Many web publishers continue  to think outside the box, when it comes to offering more user-friendly features to their sites. More people are responding to those changes with increased readership and response.

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