Quick Facts
- Only Joel Robuchon and Alain Ducasse are ahead of Ramsay
- Ramsay's father had been a swimming pool manager
- His family at first settled in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Head chef at La Tante Claire in Chelsea was his first major post
- In 2007 Ramsay opened his first Irish restaurant
Expert summary
Gordon Ramsay is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has got a total of 12 Michelin Stars. In 2007 he became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin Stars at one time. At present he ranks third in the world in the number of Michelin Stars he has won. In the UK, Ramsay is known for presenting television programs on competitive cookery and food, like Hell’s Kitchen and The F-Word. In America he is best known as the host of FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen and of Kitchen Nightmares. After trying his luck in a restaurant, Ramsay leaped ahead and now his empire has expanded rapidly, establishing places in several countries.Recommended content
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Fox.com - Hell's Kitchen
World-renowned chef GORDON RAMSAY is back for a fourth course of the sizzling unscripted series HELL’S KITCHEN. Wannabe restaurateurs slice and dice their way through each episode, vying for Ramsay’s attention in hopes of winning a life-changing culinary prize.
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Parkinson: The Gordon Interview
Gordon Ramsay talks about the difficulty in feeding his mother at work and why he gives his chefs such a hard time. -
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Books (11)
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Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food
This shouldn't be your first -- or your only -- cooking book. It just ain't a comprehensive everyday kind of tome. But it is a great book for people that want to create high-end food that is fresh and modern -- and do it quickly. I've already cooked several of the recipes, including breakfast eggs, dinner lemon chicken and spiced pan-roasted apples/pears. All have been a real treat. Using fresh ingredients and quick cooking you end up with real tasty stuff. Many of the recipes have a long-ish list of ingredients, but none are very hard to prepare. You will impress anyone you are cooking for with this book. -
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
This is quite a pageturner. My wife and I rarely finish the same book within the same day. We live an era of ghost written celebrity biographies written with boring pedantic voices. I have no illusions that Ramsay wrote this book without assistance (whether an editor or overzealous assistant)but the book certainly captures his voice. The result is an honest unapologetic narrative of the life of a remarkable man. There are lessons to be learned, hard work as the solution for overcoming adversity. Readers of food porn may be dissapointed in that the book is less about the food than the man behind the food. Fans of Ramsay will be delighted because of the insight into the method behind his madness.
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