Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBEis a Scottish-born British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold 6. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth8 November 1966
CityJohnstone, Scotland
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'
However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.
We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.
I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
I shoot from the hip.
I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.