The famous chef and presenter Gordon Ramzi: biography, professional activities, personal life

One of the most popular leading television shows in England is Gordon Ramsey. His biography is worthy of study. Gordon James Ramsay is known as the very first of the Scots to win three Michelin stars. The latter represent the highest award of cooks, guaranteeing the inclusion of an institution in the list of guidebooks Michelin for restaurants of the world. Gordon Ramsey leads such shows on television as "Infernal Cuisine", "American TV Twins", Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and The F-Word.

Michelin stars

This story began in 1900, when Andre Michelin first published a guidebook that helps rich people with gastronomic attachments to choose the right restaurant on travel. The cover of the magazine was red, which is why he was later named the "Red Guide". This is the most influential guide in European restaurant geography.

For a year the experts - real gourmets - travel incognito and evaluate all the restaurants that are on the way. They are not interested in service, not in the interior, not in price and quality, or even in the atmosphere, but only in the kitchen. That's why the face of every restaurant - the chef, everything depends on him literally. Experts never warn of a visit, no one knows them in person, or from behind. The restaurant learns about the arrival of their after-fact. Repeated visits are possible. Particular attention is given to those institutions that the stars have already received, because they can easily be taken away.

Estimates

The restaurant in the guidebook makes an assessment: one star means that the institution must be visited, being nearby. Two stars are worth it to change the route of travel and, even if making a big hook, join the almost ideal kitchen. This guide is not right to make a mistake, because he has an impeccable reputation. It also mentions those restaurants that did not receive the insignia, but are worthy of a visit.

But three stars are given to the institution, for which rich people plan a trip to the country specially. This means that wine, cuisine, service, furnishings and even the account will be on a world-wide, exceptional level. Just so in the three-star Michelin restaurants do not go, you can get there only by recording, which they do in advance - for a month, or even two. So, Gordon Ramsey restaurants got three Michelin stars. How did he achieve this?

The beginning of the way

The Scottish town of Johnston became the place where a new star of gastronomy was born - Gordon Ramsey. His biography began with the endless unsuccessful commercial undertakings of his father, so the move was permanent, and only in 1976 the family managed to settle down in Stratford-on-Avon. Gordon was also unlucky and with the football field chosen in his childhood - football, although everything began more than well. Young Gordon Ramsey, whose biography as an athlete began at the Warwickshire football club and continued at the age of eighteen with an invitation to the Ranger club, injured his knee so badly that his sports career was over. It was insulting, but it was necessary to somehow live on, even without football.

College, studying hotels and restaurants, Gordon Ramzi carried away, although it was chosen spontaneously: you must learn somewhere if the sport is closed. The young man for a long time hoped that this is not forever, but the damaged meniscus usually does not lend itself to treatment and recovery. Despite the sporting hopes, cooking caught him more and more. And, after graduating from college, Gordon Ramsey gets his first job in London. The restaurant, where the future career of the gastronomy began, is quite prestigious, that is, he finally got lucky. This institution rules Marco Pierre White, and was called the restaurant "Harvey" (Harvey's).

French cuisine

In "Harvey" Gordon Ramzi worked for about three years, then decided to study high cuisine and settled in the only three-star restaurant in England - Le Gavroche, at that time one star lacked. There he improved his knowledge of French cuisine in training with the famous hereditary chef Albert Roux.

Gordon Ramzi, whose biography as a high-masters was just beginning, liked the teacher so much that a year later, leaving Le Gavrosch, he invited the student to the French Alps, to work in the fashionable restaurant Hotel Diva.

Then, already in Paris, he was lucky enough to attend one kitchen with real culinary celebrities - Guy Savua and Joel Robuchon. Three years flew by an arrow, and then completed his training Gordon Ramzi. His biography as a culinary star was just beginning. He was invited to a private yacht for the first time as a chef.

Chef

After spending a year sailing in Bermuda, Ramzi returned to London to take over as chief of "La Tante Claire" in Chelsea. However, Albert Roux did not leave the ward alone, he invited Ramzi to Aubergine, when this "Eggplant" was named Rossmore. Ru was well versed in people: his former pupil for four years managed to raise the restaurant's rating so much that he was awarded two Michelin stars. Ramzi bought a quarter of all the shares of this institution, but was forced to leave the restaurant because of the conflict with the rest of their holders. All the kitchen workers and all the attendants left together with Ramzi. An unprecedented case.

It was a difficult decision, but it was then that a new entrepreneur, Gordon Ramsey, appeared. Biography (and his family was only happy with this turn of events) was increasingly approaching the history of an enterprising person. Against the fugitive a court was initiated with a suit for a million pounds sterling, because for the restaurant such a massive withdrawal of workers was murderous. It was closed for three months, as the staff was completely absent. Subsequently, all this litigation was jammed, the parties dispersed amicably, and the details were not disclosed.

Master

For three years of the existence of its own restaurant, opened in 1998, Ramzi receives three Michelin stars. He was the only British three-star boss at that time, and as a Scot he was the only one at all. A little later he opened a second restaurant - Petrus, whose fame, although it turned out to be somewhat scandalous (forty-four thousand pounds for a dinner wine!), But the Michelin star appeared almost immediately - a year has passed, and a few years later there were two of them.

Then you can observe the rapid growth of the Ramsey Empire. Now it operates only in England, ten restaurants, six of which - with Michelin stars, as well as three pubs and twelve other restaurants are located outside the UK. Gordon Ramsay Holdings Limited costs about one hundred and sixty-three million dollars, almost seventy percent - the property of Ramsey himself.

Writer

Not departing from the stove, the chief-ace began to outline his actions. In 1996, his first book, Passion for Taste, was published, which, unfortunately, has not yet been translated into Russian in the official version. He liked to write books. By 2007, they have already been published fourteen, among them two autobiographical - "Resentment" and "Hands up". The latter instantly became bestsellers far beyond England. And in 2006, the Queen of Great Britain, Elizabeth II Ramzi was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

The TV star

Filming on television Ramzi began in 1998. It was a series of television essays on restaurant life. The debut, "Boiling Point", was a success, so there was a sequel - "After the boiling point". But the real world fame and crowds of fans, not associated with professional cooking, he brought a television show. In "Hell's Kitchen" and "Nightmare in the Kitchen" there was no documentary, it turned out really real show programs, bright and lively.

"Nightmares in the kitchen"

This program began on the fourth channel of British television in 2004. The action is as follows: at the beginning of "Nightmare" Ramzi comes to one of the restaurants, which suffers financial collapse and therefore is on the verge of closure. Within a week he finds and tries to solve all the problems of this institution. He acts strictly alone, except that designers sometimes help to change the restaurant interior. Five seasons of this show have already come out.

Ramsey liked the work of American producers, and a new version of the television show appeared, where the action takes place mainly in the state of New Jersey. There Ramzi after some time checked how things are going in the "corrected" them restaurants. In addition, Americans have traditionally added pepper to the plot, where heartbreaking conflicts were formed from time to time, but with exacerbations they now began to occur always. The American version is more generously financed, the interiors of the restaurants participating in the show are changing beyond recognition.

The F-Word

This show is British. Ramzi is very highly regarded as a witty person since 2005. Here, too, we are talking about food, but there is no concentration on the standards of high cuisine. Rather, it's the opposite. Ramzi tries to prove to the viewer that healthy and tasty food is prepared without any special investment - financial, temporary and physical. This series has already withstood five seasons. We have popular recipes Gordon Ramzi in Russian printed, they are all mostly from this show. True, translations were made by needlewomen themselves, so they have no special faith. For example, recipes with refinements are often found: "Meatballs with pasta: three tablespoons of bread crumbs, a little milk (?), Four hundred grams of beef minced (I have pork), some basil (I have dill) ..."

Surely a book of recipes in the original, many in our country are waiting with impatience. And not only everyday, but also really high, festive. People in Russia are also interested in the biography of Gordon Ramzi, his personal life and, of course, all his culinary achievements.

"Hell's Kitchen" and "America's Best Cook"

"Infernal cuisine" is an American reality show, where Gordon Ramzi brought forth fourteen seasons. This is one of the most popular programs due to the heat of passion and dramatization of the plot. Participants compete for the place of the chef in one of the famous restaurants.

The culinary focus of the reality show "America's Best Cook", also the brainchild of the Fox channel, is released not so long ago, from 2011, but it is very popular in the world. Here, amateur cooks play not only the title of chef, but also a cash prize and the publication of his own book of culinary recipes.

Personal life

Gordon Ramzi even at the very beginning of his career was forced to leave the restaurant because of an affair with his wife's host, but that does not count. He married in 1996 and is still happy. His betrothed was a schoolteacher, and her father runs the whole empire of family restaurants. Gordon's name is Kayetan Elizabeth. She gave birth to four small Ramzi: Megan - in 1998, Jack and Holly in 2000 and Matilda in 2002. Children from small years actively participate in the TV show, that is, with their help what Gordon Ramzi started, is a biography and his family. The photo below shows this perfectly.

A friend is the best known only one - the chef from the restaurant Ramzi, Marcus Veyring, who is at the head of "Petrus". He had a career path very similar, and while Ramzi and Weiring found each other, the latter managed to work with the same chefs. And surely a big role in this friendship was played by a similar biography, according to Gordon Ramzi.

Interesting Facts

• In total, Gordon earned sixteen Michelin stars. This achievement can boast only a very few French chefs.
• The character of Gordon is very steep - he is straightforward and quick-tempered, but there are no staff turnover in his holding company.
• Ramzi does not accept vegetarianism as a concept.
• The famous chef fed a business dinner for Vladimir Putin during his first official visit to the UK.
• Ramsey fell off the cliff during the filming, but, flying from a huge height and falling into the icy water, he managed to swim himself.
• "Evening Urgant" is the only Russian program where guest was Gordon Ramzi.