Chef to receive Healthy Cup Award

Jamie Oliver has made global headway in battling childhood obesity

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Jamie Oliver, the internationally acclaimed chef of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” will be honored by the Harvard School of Public Health for his substantial achievements in working to end the childhood obesity epidemic. Oliver has campaigned to provide schoolchildren in the U.S. and U.K. with whole, freshly cooked food and has inspired millions of people around the world to become passionate about preparing delicious meals from scratch.

Oliver will receive the School’s prestigious Healthy Cup Award at a sold-out May 22 lecture and reception at the Joseph P. Martin Conference Center, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, at 4:30 p.m.

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