Jamie Oliver hires ‘cultural appropriation experts’ to avoid brigade backlash

JAMIE Oliver hires “cultural fit experts” to ensure his recipes avoid a brigade backlash.

The TV chef’s dishes are all thoroughly tested, with times changing so much, he says his 2012 Empire roast chicken wouldn’t taste good today.

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Oliver, 46, added: “Your immediate reaction is to get defensive and say, ‘Is it really for the love of God?’.

Then you say, ‘We don’t want to offend anyone’. “

Other chefs have dipped their hands in hot water because of this.

Gordon Ramsay, 55, made a splash when his Lucky Cat restaurant in London was described as an “authentic Asian eatery” despite not having a chef from the Far East.

Oliver is Britain’s best-selling non-fiction writer, having sold more than 48 million books.

MasterChef judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode have been blamed by the Malaysian foreign minister for a “white explanation” of how to prepare rendang for a Malaysian-born contestant on BBC1.

Orwell’s 1984 received activation warning

Isaac Crowson

A UNIVERSITY has issued a trigger warning on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four because it thinks it can be “upsetting and upsetting”.

Northampton University staffers have classified the novel – which sounds like a chilling warning about the dangers of censorship – as “clearly documented”.

Critics say their warning contradicts the theme of the 1949 book. The story, set in an authoritarian state that suppresss individual thought, warns of what can happen to a society. society does not respect its historical or academic freedoms.

It is among a number of literary works that have been flagged at the university. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: “It’s ironic that students are being given a trigger warning before reading Nineteen Eighty-Four.”