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There are moments in life where things come full circle and last night provided one of those. You'll have to excuse the sentimentality, but one of the first cookbooks I got growing up, was Jamie's Naked Chef book when I was about 12 and all of sudden there was someone to look up to who was making cooking cool! Since my videos have been up on FoodTube , Jamie had been saying hello via instagram but it was my first time meeting him last night and he was just so great, full of chat, smiles, praise and really made me feel welcome. In fact the whole atmosphere last night was just very very cool and not only is Jamie a genuinely nice guy but his whole team and everyone around him are the most lovely people I have ever worked with. From camera guys to chefs and from food team members to runners everyone worked with a smile and made time to chat. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd and a good few fellow food bloggers, Niamh Shields from EatLikeAGirl , Miss Foodwise and Food Urchin were there, all instantly recognisable from twitter and instagram and totally holding their own for the food blogger massive! Niamh even gave me a hand with my pineapple skewers on the night, all hands on deck!

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I knew that Jamie Oliver was successful, of course. How could I not? I knew that he made television programmes and led social crusades and sold cookbooks by the container-load, that there was his website and his apps, that he'd won an Emmy in America, that the mortar and pestle my mum gave me for Christmas has his name on it, and that a rash of Jamie's Italians have sprung up on high streets up and down the land. And yet, it turns out, I know hardly anything. I don't know about his holding company, and the scale of the retail operation, and that his restaurant business has outlets opening in Brazil and India and China and Russia and who knows where else. I've never even heard of Barbecoa, his barbecue chain, Recipease, his cooking school, Union Jacks, his fish and chips venture, Jamie's Italian Trattorias, a restaurant sub-brand not to be confused with Jamie's Italians. And he's in charge of it all. While still doing all the cheeky chappie stuff and still making cooking programmes and berating Michael Gove and banging on about people with big-screen TVs eating cheesy chips. When I turn up at his offices near Old Street — so-called Silicon Roundabout, the hub of Britain's startup scene — to interview some of the people involved with the tech side of the business, we can't, initially, find anywhere to sit. There are five floors in all in the 50s block but they're all full. There are multiple buildings filled with multiple young folk all dedicated to burnishing the Jamie Oliver brand, including a whole team devoted to his social media, his apps, his YouTube channels. Because while it's not quite correct to say that technology is at the heart of all Oliver's businesses, it's certainly at the cutting edge of his media empire as separate from his retail empire and his restaurant empire and drives everything else. In just over a year, FoodTube has acquired nearly a million subscribers and is now the third biggest food channel on YouTube; DrinksTube has just launched; the app was, within a few months of launch, the most lucrative on UK iTunes; the website has eight million visitors a month and has just walked away with three Webbys, the Oscars of the online world. Jamie Oliver no longer is a TV chef, or a campaigner, or a cookbook author, or the owner of several chains of restaurants, or at least he is, but he's also, as he tells me later, "a very strange brand, a celebrity disruptive force".

I wonder how you get a job like that, foodtube. Might as well finish it off.

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As we move into the digital era, paperback recipe books are going out the door in favor of E-books and video guides. For would-be chefs, YouTube is a resource boasting thousands of creators sharing their own recipes and takes on popular food. YouTube has everything, simple recipes perfect for the beginner chef to complex creations of theoretical foods. If you have an idea someone has probably done it and posted a video to the platform. Along with the range of recipes, there is also a diverse creators base with their own unique spin on cooking that can make the viewing experience superior to a simple step-by-step cooking guide. Here are some of the best food channels on YouTube all with their own unique personality and specialty.

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Ever since I moved to Europe, I haven't been able to get enough of food in tubes. I see them far more often here where I live in Germany than I ever did back home in America, and frankly I've become a bit obsessed. I've found everything from mayonnaise to anchovy paste in compact, squeezable containers, and it has made my life so much easier and my food so much more delicious. To start, I love these ingredients in tubes because they take up way less space than the same ingredients in jars—looking at you mayo and mustard. Tubes also make canned things, like tomato paste or sweetened condensed milk, far more accessible. For example, rather than opening an entire can just to use a single tablespoon, I can simply squirt out however much I need, and then I don't have to worry about wrapping up and refrigerating the can—all I have to do is screw on the cap! Finally, ingredients that might normally make your hands stink, like anchovies and garlic, are way more manageable when all you have to do is squeeze them into a pan. You definitely won't regret investing in these 10 foods in tubes. From recipe building blocks to classic condiments , these ingredients are bound to become your main squeeze.

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First I'd like to ask if anyone has any questions for me about this project in general, as I'm making my user-info page a bit better and am not sure what to write about. It would be impossible to explain Jamie Oliver to a visitor who'd just dropped by from Mars. In the meantime here are some photos of a restaurant menu in Beijing. Slightly misleading Chinese name - "three duck parts" What it really is - duck tongues, feet and shoulders in hot sauce Location - Hunan restaurant Collapse. He is a strange one-man celebrity disruptive force. He's a really bright boy but he still struggles with technical bits. Is there a training course? That's the thing about San Francisco, it's quite hard not to have a coffee and meet someone who's doing a startup. He can touch type. After porn, food is the second most searched thing online and he wants to give users a taste for the healthy options. The visitor from Mars probably won't get it but he's doing it his way and, for everyone's sake, you have to hope he pulls it off.

I knew that Jamie Oliver was successful, of course. How could I not? I knew that he made television programmes and led social crusades and sold cookbooks by the container-load, that there was his website and his apps, that he'd won an Emmy in America, that the mortar and pestle my mum gave me for Christmas has his name on it, and that a rash of Jamie's Italians have sprung up on high streets up and down the land.

And that his business has been built on relationships. And if I'm boring you, slap me and move on, but to know how people are living and what their patterns are to have a more holistic approach that a GP could have access to could be huge. On his way to the photoshoot, I see him give a white-haired secretary a hug and she later tells me she's worked with him from the very beginning: she was his accountant's secretary and she came along with the package when he made him his first managing director. It would be like my village versus America in a war. There's some "interesting boys" doing interesting stuff, he says. I motion at the Jawbone wristband. Now after all that love, you have to go over and subscribe because there's lots more videos to come! Woo go FoodTube Family! Jamie Oliver photographed at his TV studios in Shoreditch. After the frying it looked much the same - that is, not something you'd be particularly keen on puttng in your mouth. They don't seem to have cracked that, do they? Finally today we have a first for foodtube, a youtube video. To save money and to save lives. I love it.