Passion for Flavour

by Gordon Ramsay, Roz Denny

More than 100 recipes - manyu of them Ramsay's most famous - from the fiery, 3-star Michelin chef on Fox's hit series, "Hell's Kitchen." Each recipe puts a premium on lightness and flavor using a low-fat approach. 

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food and Wine, Food

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

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. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world.
Ramsay's TV persona is defined by his fiery temper, aggressive behaviour, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity, while making blunt, critical, and controversial comments, including insults and sardonic wisecracks about contestants and their cooking abilities. He combines activities in the television, film, hospitality and food industries, and has promoted and hired various chefs who have apprenticed under his wing. He is known for presenting television programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen (2004), Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004–2009, 2014), and The F Word (2005–2010), with Kitchen Nightmares winning the 2005 British Academy Television Award for Best Feature, and the American versions of Hell's Kitchen (2005–present), Kitchen Nightmares (2007–present), MasterChef (2010–present), and MasterChef Junior (2013–present), as well as Hotel Hell (2012–2016), Gordon Behind Bars (2012), Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back (2018–2020), and Next Level Chef (2022–present).
Ramsay was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry. He was named the top chef in the UK at the 2000 Catey Awards, and in July 2006 he won the Catey for Independent Restaurateur of the Year, becoming the third person to win three Catey Awards. Forbes listed his 2020 earnings at US $70 million and ranked him at No.19 on its list of the highest-earning celebrities.

Reviews

[Icewineanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not a novice cookbook. I prefer simple recipes that turn out perfect everytime. Most of the recipes in this book are just too ambitious for me. Be warned, you need to read these recipes carefully before starting to cook as many of them have recipes within recipes that need to be prepared in advance.
Gordon does include some recipes that are useful no matter what your skill in the kitchen is, such as a handy section devoted to recipes for every stock & sauce you will ever need, followed by a step by step guide with pictures, to making your own fresh pasta.
The book also has a wonderful introduction that is really a short bio on Gordon Ramsay. Even though I will not be making many of the full recipes in this book, I will use it to make basic sauces & stocks to enhance my cooking.

[David Brinkman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid, classic Ramsay methods and flavours

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

The ingredients in so many of these recipes are just so difficult to find: guinea fowl, partridge, foie gras, venison ete, etc. I guess that isn't this cookbook's fault but still. A few "accessible" recipes would have really been nice here. That said, the apricot and raspberry souffles were good.

[Ben Pound · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is advanced cooking at it's best by on the best chefs in the world. I didn't have the guts to try any of the recipes, but it was still actually fun to read.

[Meidini Pertiwi]

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