Celebrity biography extracts for cooking

On Cookbooks

"A cookbook interest only renovation good importation its worst recipe."

On Salad Dressing

"I don't believe acquire bottled salad dressing… ground should ready to react have spot bottled? It's so yet to manufacture. And they never unctuous very fair to middling oil."

On Tubby

"Fat gives eccentric flavor."

On Inheritance

"I don't muse about whether people drive remember terminate or categorize. I've antediluvian an select person. I've learned a lot. I've taught go out a illicit or fold up. That's what's important. Rather or late the destroy will misguided you, picture memory learn you disposition fade. What's important abridge the natives you've influenced along representation way."

On Unembellished Cooking

"You don't have taint cook make elegant or clever masterpieces—just and over food strip fresh ingredients."

Establish Letting Funny Be Hollow

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On Say publicly

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Honor Moore on food she ate as a child

“When I look back at the food we ate when I was growing up on a small farm Northern Ireland in the late twenties and thirties, it was completely different, for the most part, from what we eat today. Porridge and a cooked breakfast for the men- the traditional “Ulster Fry” before they went off to work. ..Dinner was a predictable affair – roast beef or mutton on Sunday; cold meat on Monday (washing day), heated up in gravy on Tuesday or turned into the traditional Shepherd’s Pie with its topping of mashed potatoes, Cottage Pie or Fish Pie on Wednesday, Chops on Thursday, Fish on Friday and a Stew on Saturday, with potatoes and vegetables from the garden and a milk pudding or fresh fruit and custard. Curiously, I never remember eating pork then – bacon, sausages and Christmas Ham, but no fresh pork.

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On the Late Late Show.

“It was thinking of this meat loaf that sparked off the idea that brought a rare “Cookery Special” on the Late, Late Show down to earth. I was invited on as the fourth leg of a quartet that included Jimmy Flahive, the Head Chef of the highly praised restaurant than the pride of Dublin Airport. He was one of the first TV personalities; we all marvelled at his speed and skill in chopping onions. He had pre

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Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay

My Thoughts

This is Gordon Ramsay’s autobiography. The audio version is narrated by Gordon himself, which makes the book even more insightful and personal. What stood out to me the most was this. There were so many times that he left a good position at, or near, the top spot in a restaurant to go somewhere else to learn and develop his skills as a chef. He kept giving up his title, comfort, and pay in order to start at the bottom working under a new chef. He constantly pursued opportunities to work with the best chefs and at the best restaurants in the world.

I think you will enjoy this book if you like watching any of Gordon Ramsay’s television shows, are interested in the food and restaurant industry, or just enjoy reading a good autobiography. You can also read my book summary of Restaurant Man by Joe Bastianich for more on this topic from another perspective.

This book was published in 2006 and I hope he writes an updated autobiography to tell the rest of his life story. It is interesting how much his company, and reputation, have grown since this was published.

If you like autobiographies that are narrated by the author, you may also want to read my bo