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'd like to think I'm a great teacher.
I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.
My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.
I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.
I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.
What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.
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.
Put that emotion in the food, because it's so much more rewarding down the line.
It's a humbling experience. These people have been through extraordinary events. They're an inspiration.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
The most fascinating change for me was watching how the standard of the food depleted the higher you became and watching the way that food dehydrates 10 times quicker,
And obviously with airline food you go through thousands and thousands of kilos of asparagus as a opposed to a box of asparagus.
The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.