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 cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish.
Push your limit to the absolute extreme.
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.
You don't come into cooking to get rich.
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
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.'
I suppose I might be a player-coach nowadays. I'm a great teacher, and I enjoy teaching. But I'm glad I got injured and ended up turning to cooking. It was an accident but the happiest one of my life.