The Celebrity 100

I have to do an assignment on a celebrity chef, my choice was Gordon Ramsay. I have been give two questions and I need quick answers here they are. 'What is their signiture dish/food type' and 'What has been their influence on food and food choices and on society'.

To answer the second one, Gordon Ramsey has reinvented the hunger for success (pun intended). Because of his influence both as a cultural icon and a chef, people are inspired to work on a much more diligent level.

2008-04-27 03:19:18 by ???????????????

Gordon Ramsay destroys a chef who put apricot in mashed potatoes

Does anyone have the recipe for Gordon Ramsay's roasted vine tomato soup ? please also cite your source

Here you go.....


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/gordon_ramsay/article1155928.ece

A superlative fresh tomato soup is one of the hallmarks of a good cook. My secret is first to roast the tomatoes, together with onions and herbs. Flavourful tomatoes are, of course, essential. To enhance the flavour I add smoked sun-dried cherry tomatoes with a hickory flavour. If you can’t find these, substitute snipped semi-soft sun-dried tomatoes and a dash of barbecue sauce.

4 tbsp olive oil
1kg plum tomatoes, halved
1 onion, thinly sliced
2 fat garlic cloves, halved
Small handful of thyme sprigs
1 tsp caster sugar
Small handful of basil sprigs
1l chicken stock or Vegetable Nage
3 smoked sun-dried cherry tomatoes in oil, drained (or 2 semi-soft sun-dried tomatoes and 1 tbsp barbecue sauce)
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

To serve:

2 tbsp olive oil
200-300g baby cherry tomatoes on the vine
Small basil leaves

1 Preheat the oven to 220C, Gas 7. Pour the olive oil into a roasting tin and heat in the oven until almost smoking. Carefully tip in the tomatoes, onion rings and garlic, then toss to coat in the oil. Scatter over the thyme sprigs, sprinkle with sugar and season generously with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven for 20-25 minutes until nicely caramelised, stirring once or twice and adding the basil towards the end of cooking.

2 Tip the roasted tomatoes and flavourings into a saucepan, discarding any woody thyme stalks. Bring the stock to the boil in another pan, then pour over the tomatoes. Bring
to the boil, add the smoked tomatoes (or semi-soft sun dried tomatoes plus barbecue sauce) and cook for 5 minutes.

3 Strain the stock, reserving the tomato mixture. Tip the tomatoes into a blender or food processor and whiz, gradually adding the stock back in until smooth and creamy. Pass the soup through a sieve into a clean pan or bowl, rubbing with the back of a ladle. Taste and adjust the seasoning.

4 For the garnish, heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Snip the vine tomatoes into four clusters and fry them on the vine for about a minute.

5 Reheat the soup if necessary, but it’s best served warm rather than piping hot. Pour into warmed bowls and top with the pan-roasted vine tomatoes. Drizzle the pan juices around the tomatoes and scatter with basil leaves.

2007-11-15 07:55:10 by Michael V

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My girlfriend and I are watching Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and we were wondering if anybody knew how the restaurants were picked. Does Ramsay know about struggling restaurants or do the owners send in to the show? If the owners send in to the show why do they usually end up fighting with him and want him to leave?

Someone from the restaurant applies.

I've wondered the same thing. Surely they've seen the show, they know what's going to happen.....why be such an ass about it when it happens?

2008-11-12 22:56:14 by questioner

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Fox just renewed Hell's Kitchen for season 5 & 6, Kitchen Nightmares for another season, and has said Gordon would be doing another series and a special. What do you think the new show/special would be about?

Stupid donkeys.

2008-10-03 09:25:10 by cmdruser

Can anyone tell me which of his recipe books it is in and what it is called? (or a website with Gordon's recipe on). I know I have used it and it is one of my recipe books but I simply cannot find it.

It's called Hot Chocolate Fondant and you will find it in his book "Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy", page 220!

2007-01-04 14:27:46 by Toyegirl

Seems Gordon is a little more precise and clean than Mario is.

Michelin stars speak volumes ( Ramsay =9 stars,batali=1) Gordon Ramsay is one of the greatest chefs there is, Batali doesn't even come close.
They have both worked for some very influential chefs such as Roux brothers (Ramsay and Batali), Guy Savoy, Marco-Pierre White (Ramsay and Batali)
Do a little research into both of their careers and I'll think you will find Ramsay stands alone at the top.

2008-04-15 16:37:55 by M