Jamie Oliver has always been divisive. Some heralded him as the saviour of children’s health for his war on turkey twizzlers, while others saw him as short-sighted for claiming that poor families waste money on ready meals when they could be eating healthily on the cheap. The chef has found himself at the centre of a number of controversies over the years, from culinary appropriation to rage at his unsolicited breastfeeding advice.
Last year, Oliver came under fire for “stereotyping” the experience of First Nations Australians in his children’s book, Billy and the Epic Escape. The 416-page novel contains a bizarre subplot in which an evil witch teleports to Alice Springs in remote northern Australia and kidnaps an indigenous child.
