Jamie Oliver does roadkill!

Posted by Anthea Gerrie Dec 25, 2006

Who would have thought Jamie Oliver had it in him to be politicall incorrect?

Britain's highest-profile celebrity chef is more inclined to good works - his catering

enterprise Fifteen was devoted to turning idle, unmotivated teenagers into chefs,

while he will likely get a knighthood one day for having forced the UK government

to confront the issue of malnourished children raised on junk food and invest more in

school dinners and teaching dinner-ladies to cook healthy ingredients from scratch.

Perhaps he's having a little light relief with Road Kill Cafe, made for the BBC's alternative

youth television channel BBC3 by his production company, Fresh One. While we won't

actually see our Jamie skinning squirrels or picking badgers up off the tarmac to barbecue,

we will see his mate and celebrity forager-cum-roadkill-chef Fergus Drennan doing the same or worse. According to BBC3 controller Julian Bellamy, the only animals off-limits are rats and

domestic pets.

Astonishingly, Drennan himself is a vegetarian - and fellow veggies will be catered for

in the series by a soup of seaweed scraped up off the Kent beaches.