Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen: Recipes from the F-word

by Gordon Ramsay

In a guide to many varieties of worldwide cuisine, a top TV chef offers recipes for 100 dishes--including Spinach, Ricotta and Pine Nut Ravioli; Fragrant Green Curry; and many more--all augmented by full-color photos. By the best-selling author of Gordon Ramsay's Maze. Original.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

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

[m · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recipes aplenty, looks easy enough but I have not tried any. Am still feeling abit cheated after the disaster that was the Beef Wellington recipe....I still adore Gordon Ramsay though and wholeheartedly agree with his insistence on the freshest yet viably sustainable ingredients.

[Kirsty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ye gads, this is a delicious cookery book (although I must admit that I expect no less from the man himself!). True to form, the recipes are largely easy to prepare, and are all sumptuous.

[Darren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chef Gordon Ramsay probably needs no introduction to the average YUM reader and this book is his look at cooking 10 different cuisines the Ramsay way.

Obviously such a relatively small book can only give a superfluous treatment to the subject (French cooking in less than two dozen pages, anyone?) and sadly much precious space is given over to "lifestyle" pictures of Ramsay doing his stuff instead of much-needed additional text. Within the chapter on French cooking they have managed to cram a whole ten recipes in and whilst, for a broad, generalist book you get a good range of interesting recipes, this reader just got left wanting more and feeling short-changed.

Superficially the book seems to deliver everything. A good layout, some engaging photographs, easy-to-follow recipes and a fair bit of hand-holding to boot. You may also feel inspired and engaged to try different cuisines and up your cooking game. Without sounding elitist, maybe this is a book for the masses who don't really do a lot of cookery. For that market, this could be a good by, written by a face they have tended to know and trust (through television). For the more advanced cook and gastronome things are different.

Yet whilst trying to remain neutral and honest, it still feels like Ramsay has spread himself a bit too thin here. Three or four cuisines, perhaps a whole region, and it might have worked a lot better. Trying to take 10 cuisines in one small book is a bit of a step too far. That is a shame. The overbearing sense of personality seeps through this book too. The food should be the story. Not the author, particularly when it is no life story sort of book. Do we really care that Ramsay has been lucky to have worked in Italy a lot or to know about some of this favourite things?

It is horribly difficult to reach a conclusion about this book. It is really one of those books that, should you be tempted, you really must check out a physical copy in your hand before purchase to be sure it is something you can gel with. You may either love it or hate it. There is not so much middle ground.

Gordon Ramsay's World Kitchen: Easy and Delicious New Twists on 10 Cuisines, written by Gordon Ramsay and published by Sterling Epicure. ISBN 9781402797903, 256 pages. Typical price: USD25. YYYY.




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[Lyna Cho · Rating 4 out of 5]

So well pictured book. Like a coking encyclopedia. Really like this book.

[Jacqueline Curry · Rating 4 out of 5]

The food is lovely, but not always that cheap to make. Most of the recipes use a lot of ingredients, but they also tend to make more food than you expect.

[Kelly Papson · Rating 5 out of 5]

recipies seem quite easy - i've tried some already. a definite must for a shelf of cookbooks.

[Shelley Diemart · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm giving this four stars even though I find many of his recipes to be a bit rich. There are a lot of excellent cooking tips and tricks, and his sauces are divine.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just not my favorite chef/author.

[Brita · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting recipes from France, Italy, Greece, Spain, England, Middle East, China, Thailand, India and America. From each region, I found some recipes that I am really looking forward to try. I liked that each recipe was fitted on one page and the illustrative photos were so appetizing.

[Alicia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bought this online in hopes of trying some new things, but was sad to see that it's at least 50% fish recipes. Nobody needs that much fish.