Many of you knew Jamie Oliver as “the Naked Chef” — which he warns against ever actually cooking in the nude — and some of you have seen his recent show on ABC “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution“, and more of you yet may have never heard of him until now.

Jamie is a chef from the United Kingdom who has made it his mission in life to use his celebrity for good. He started in England, revamping the school lunch program there to rid it of processed, frozen foods and replace them with freshly prepared menus full of healthy, real ingredients. You may not realize the enormity of this goal, but he accomplished it throughout a great area in the U.K. and then he came here, to the U.S. to do the same thing.

His success in starting a “food revolution” in the states has been dynamic and wonderful. His goals are simple; get rid of processed, frozen foods which have ingredients lists that read like a medical journal, and replace them with healthy, real, fresh ingredients and meals made from such. That’s the revolution. That’s what he’s trying to get all of America to do. Schools, families, communities, he wants us to be a healthier nation who cooks again.

The statistics he talks about on the show were pretty scary. The fact that this generation of school age children actually have a shorter life expectancy than their parents — something never before true in recorded history. The fact that America is getting more and more unhealthy as we get fatter and fatter is not good. But the good news is we can change it! YOU can change it! You can be PART OF this “food revolution!”

So how can you be a part of the “food revolution?”

First, visit this website and sign the petition to save America’s cooking skills and improve school food.

Second, visit one of Taco Cabana’s two “Open Kitchen” locations in Albuquerque, NM and watch us prepare your food fresh, right in front of you!

You see, just like Jamie’s Kitchen, our “Open Kitchen” locations make everything fresh. We don’t use processed, frozen foods. In fact, if you want to know how many calories are in one of our items, just look it up on the web. If it has eggs, look up eggs… if it has beans, look up beans… chicken, chicken… and so on and so on. You won’t have to guess what else we add or how we prepare it because we don’t add anything that’s not natural and we prepare it right in front of you!

In a way the Taco Cabana open kitchens have been a part of the food revolution for over a decade now. And we’re not ashamed to say we’re glad everyone else is finally catching onto what makes good food good!