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Heather Parry writes about how Jamie Oliverism affected her hometown two decades after the ‘battle of Rawmarsh’.

Mar 09, 2026
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Good morning, and welcome to Vittles! Today’s newsletter by Heather Parry looks back twenty years to the media panic in Rotherham which followed Jamie’s School Dinners. This is the fourth online-only dispatch from the Bad Food Extended Universe, which is the theme of Issue 2 of our print magazine. You can order a copy here.

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