Gordon Ramsay, Famous For...
This Scot has a foul mouth and a sharp tongue and he used both wisely in order to create a unique persona for the TV screens. He has a number of restaurants and pubs based in UK and outside the country and published a number of books. Yet despite that he is far more famous as a rude, somewhat ruthless but honest chef on the TV shows.
How old is Gordon Ramsay?
Gordon Ramsay is 45 years old. Gordon Ramsay was born on the 8th November 1966.
How did Gordon Ramsay get into cooking?
Gordon Ramsay The Chef could have been Gordon Ramsay The Footballer if fate did not intervene. At the age of 12 he played at 'under-14s' level for "Warwickshire", at 18 he tried to get into "Rangers" football club, who he was a fan of, but a serious injury to his knee ended his career on the football field. Ramsay than radically changed his career path and enroled in college to study Hotel Management. He then moved his studies to the restaurant kitchens of London and Paris. His first job after college was at "Harvey's" where he worked under Marco Pierre White. Two years later he worked in Le Gavroche where he learned classic French cuisine from chef Albert Roux. Later Ramsay moves to Paris where he worked with the likes of Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon for three years. He finished his studies and accepted a job aboard a fashionable yacht as a chef. Next is "La Tante Claire" in Chelsea, London.
In 1998 Gordon Ramsay opened his own first restaurant "Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road" which receives 3 stars in 2001. Ramsay discovered that he is also has an eye for business by opening 9 restaurants and 2 pubs in Britain and 12 restaurants outside UK. He has a successful company called Gordon Ramsay Holdings Limited and released not only cooking books but autobiographies as well. The TV show "Boiling Point" was Ramsay's debut on the screens and what has followed has been just as successful as everything else he got stuck into (examples are "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" and "Hell's Kitchen").
How to be next Gordon Ramsay
So how do you carve yourself the same career? Firstly you have to be flexible, look at how Ramsay went from an aspiring footballer, to a chef's apprentice, to a successful restaurant owner and a shrewd businessman and a TV personality. You can say that Ramsay's career was all down to luck but you can try your own at courses in hotel management and catering.
Check your local colleges for courses in Hospitality Services or Professional Catering or Hospitality Reception and Front of House Operations. Such courses teach cookery and customer care skills, as well as food presentation and allows you to acquire skills for future employment.
Further Reading
If you'd like to find out more about Gordon's early life then you should read Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection