Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story... This is Gordon Ramsay's autobiography - the first time he has told the full story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his working relationship (and subsequent feud) with Marco Pierre White: all of these things have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media ...
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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story... This is Gordon Ramsay's autobiography - the first time he has told the full story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his working relationship (and subsequent feud) with Marco Pierre White: all of these things have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about: * his tough childhood: his father's alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings * his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen, and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later * his brother's heroin addiction: Gordon's brother has a long-documented struggle with drug addiction and has spent time in prison. Now he is clean and his real story is told for the first time * Gordon's early career: Gordon was Marco Pierre White's proteg??? at the legendarily brutal kitchen at Harvey's, and now speaks out about the controversial truth behind their falling-out and subsequent feud. Gordon also discusses how his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux and his seven Michelin-starred restaurants. * kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style. * and how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for success.
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Good in Good jacket. GC. HarperCollins, 2006. First edition-11th printing. Grey hardback(two marks and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover, silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of watermarks inside the edges of the Dj cover, small nicks, mark, scratch, and crease on the Dj cover), both in GC. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos. Clean pages but with some damp damage on the edges, some nicks on the outer edges of the pages, creases, nicks and small tear on the edges of the pages, tear inside the edge of the front cover and front endpaper, mark on the edge of the last blank page of the book. The book is in GC but with light shelf wear.299 including Foreword, afterword, index. price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Review: Gordon Ramsay's Humble Pie-so exuberantly angry boastful, cliche-ridden, expletive-laden and touchingly sincere that I can't believe that a single sentence has been written by anyone but the failed footballer, great cook, telly star and businessman himself. He's the genuine bollocks, as he's so fond of saying, and this is the tale of his personal class struggle. '
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Fine in Fine jacket. Fine condition. HarperCollins, 2006. First edition-2nd printing. Grey hardback(silver lettering to the spine, small nick and light shelf wear on the edge of the cover) with Dj(very small tear, a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos. The book is as new with a small colour mark on the outer edge of the pages, small nicks on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the front endpaper. Nice and clean book.299pp including Foreword, afterword, index. Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Review: Gordon Ramsay's Humble Pie-so exuberantly angry boastful, cliche-ridden, expletive-laden and touchingly sincere that I can't believe that a single sentence has been written by anyone but the failed footballer, great cook, telly star and businessman himself. He's the genuine bollocks, as he's so fond of saying, and this is the tale of his personal class struggle. '
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
