The last 12 months of the millennia was also the year a certain mop-topped cockney chef rose to fame. Jamie Oliver’s TV show, The Naked Chef, debuted in 1999 and a cookbook quickly followed in 2000. It introduced us to the delights of homemade focaccia, pancetta, sun-dried tomatoes and whole fish baked in sea salt, which seals in the steam and results in tender, flaky flesh.

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The famous food launched the year you were born