I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.
Gordon RamsayWhen you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
Gordon RamsayThere's a side to reality TV that is part education, as well. I've seen that since doing "MasterChef Junior," in terms of the effect it has on the confidence given these young kids from 8 to 13, a quality life skill. Even if they never pursue cooking as a job or a career, just learning how to cook for yourself sets you up in a good place.
Gordon RamsayInitially let your food do the talking. You'll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.
Gordon RamsayHaving four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.
Gordon RamsayAnother person tattooed my face on their calf. When they tense, the face moves! That is messed up.
Gordon RamsayIf my last supper was ever going to be cooked by a chef, it would have to be Thomas Keller.
Gordon RamsayBake some bread. Make a focaccia bread or bake a whole mill loaf. Do something creative, and then put the labor of love into it in the beginning. When you take that bread out of the oven and you eat it an hour- and- a- half, two- hours later, you start to appreciate it more and then you eat less because you worked so hard to make it, you appreciate it in a much better way.
Gordon RamsayIf I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
Gordon RamsayChefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Gordon RamsayWe launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.
Gordon RamsayI'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
Gordon RamsayVery few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.
Gordon RamsayI'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon RamsayI think, to Chelsea's [Handler] point, I still need directing because sometimes I go a little bit off beat in a way that it's like, rein it in. I welcome that kind of support.
Gordon RamsayBeing on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.
Gordon RamsayI'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.
Gordon RamsayHow many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?
Gordon RamsayFirst of all, for me the secret is in the ingredients. You don't need to start spending fortunes on organic foods and start becoming way over budget. The better the ingredient, the littler that needs doing to it.
Gordon RamsayChefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.
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