Jamie Oliver Oliver travelled to inspire everyday people in Rotherham, Yorkshire, to cook healthy meals. Another television series is "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" (2010–11), where he travelled first to Huntington, West Virginia and then to Los Angeles to change the way Americans eat, and address their dependence on fast food. Oliver's holding company, Jamie Oliver Holdings Ltd., earned enough for Oliver to have been listed on "The Sunday Times" list of richest Britons under 30. In December 2009, Oliver received the 2010 TED Prize. Oliver hosted "Jamie's 15 Minute Meals" on Channel 4, which aired for 40 episodes in 2012. In June
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage