Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection

by Gordon Ramsay

Overview

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell.

Now, for the first time, the world's most famous—and infamous—chef tells the inside story of his life: his difficult childhood, his father's alcoholism and violence, his brother's heroin addiction, his short-circuited soccer career, and his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection—everything that helped mold him into the culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. He also dishes the dirt on the rich and famous, and takes you behind the scenes of some of the great restaurants.

Honest, outrageous, and intensely personal, Roasting in Hell's Kitchen will not only change your perception of Gordon Ramsay but that of the cutthroat world of haute cuisine as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061191985
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/13/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Gordon Ramsay's radical career change at seventeen, from soccer player to chef, led to the awakening of exceptional talent. He is now the holder of an extraordinary ten Michelin stars, for his restaurants in London and New York, and is at the head of a food empire, with restaurants in places as far afield as Tokyo and Prague. He has produced a number of bestselling cookbooks, published a hugely successful autobiography, Roasting in Hell's Kitchen, and starred in a stream of successful television series, including the award-winning Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen on Fox. Ramsay and his wife have four children and live in England.

Table of Contents

Foreword     7
Dad     11
Football     39
Getting Started     59
French Leave     87
Oceans Apart     113
A Room of My Own     127
War     143
The Great Walk-Out     157
The Sweet Smell of Success     171
Ronnie     203
Down Among the Women     237
Welcome to the Small Screen     251
Afterword     273
Index     279