How It's Made: The Rage of Gordon Ramsay

king-crypto (56)in #funny • 8 years ago

Old Gordon... He's not just angry because he's covered in shit, he's angry because he doesn't like to put up with shit too.

Regardless I've delved through hours of articles and hours of film to bring you a Special How it's made : The Rage of Gordon.

The Beginning

I guess one of the most important parts of this entire blog is, how the fuck does somebody develop such a rage induced. passionate, intelligent yet abusive and ignorant adoration and love for life?

Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", and his family moved constantly due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was an at-times-violent alcoholic. In 1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he grew up in the Bishopton area of the town. In his autobiography, Humble Pie, he describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser".

After recognizing that his childhood was plagued with abuse and neglect, it's not hard to see how the seeds of internal anger and smugness were sewn.

Finding a Passion in Cooking

After weighing his options, Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College, sponsored by the Rotarians, to study hotel management. He describes his decision to enter catering college as "an accident, a complete accident."

In the early 1980s, he worked as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel then ran the kitchen and 60-seat dining room at the Wickham Arms, until his sexual relationship with the owner's wife made the situation difficult. Ramsay then moved to London, where he worked in a series of restaurants until being inspired to work for the temperamental Marco Pierre White at Harveys.

After working at Harveys for two years and ten months, Ramsay, tired of "the rages and the bullying and violence", decided that the way to further advance his career was to study French cuisine. White discouraged Ramsay from taking a job in Paris, instead encouraging him to work for Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in Mayfair. (While at Le Gavroche, he met Jean-Claude Breton, now his maître d'hôtel at Royal Hospital Road.) After working at Le Gavroche for a year, Albert Roux invited Ramsay to work with him at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two. From there, Ramsay moved to Paris to work with Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon, both Michelin-starred chefs. In Master Chef season 3 episode 18, Gordon Ramsay stated that Guy Savoy was his mentor. He continued his training in France for three years, before giving in to the physical and mental stress of the kitchens and taking a year to work as a personal chef on the private yacht Idlewild, based in Bermuda.

The Seed Was Sewn

After growing up, being neglected and abused by his father, he went on to be neglected and abused by coaches in football followed by being neglected and abused by chefs.

It's rather impressive actually how much ferocious tenacity this man has. He truly did break a mold. His Rage comes from a place deep within, it's love, it's passion, it's kindness, it's abusive, it's a lesson from the greatest.