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
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.
I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.