Book description
Think you know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn?
This is his real story…
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven,
stubborn. But this is his real story…
In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography
Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world's most famous and
infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction,
his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of
gastronomic perfection and his TV persona - all the things that have
made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is
today. Gordon talks frankly about:
• his tough childhood: his father's alcoholism and violence and the
effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings
• his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to
Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen,
and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later
• his brother's heroin addiction.
• Gordon's early career: learning his trade in Paris and London; how
his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux and
his seven Michelin-starred restaurants.
• kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen
door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style.
• and how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family:
his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for
success. 'Gordon Ramsay's Humble Pie - so exuberantly angry boastful,
cliche-ridden, expletive-laden and touchingly sincere that I can't
believe that a single sentence has been written by anyone but the failed
footballer, great cook, telly star and businessman himself. He's the
genuine bollocks, as he's so fond of saying, and this is the tale of his
personal class struggle.' - The Observer
'Inspirational stuff.' Heat
'A mesmerising tale. It reads like a conversation and exudes
personality. Ramsay finds it hard to dodge the f-word, but despite the
defensiveness that comes accross, the book is an inspiration.' Irish
Examiner Gordon Ramsay's radical career change at 17 years old led him
to London and to huge success as chef, restaurant-empire-builder and
celebrity. Gordon has published nine bestselling recipe books and has
starred in the hugely successful television series': the Bafta
award-winning Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and The F
Word. In 2006 he was appointed OBE and saw the launch of his New York
restaurant.
