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Gordon Ramsay

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About Gordon Ramsay

Gordon James Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the bes…

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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'…

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

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 lik…

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need …

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

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.

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.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

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.

I grew up in a funny way.

I hid myself in food.

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.

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 of…

I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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…

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

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.

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.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.