In the latest edition of ‘Restaurant Magazine’ in the UK, former right hand man Mark Sargeant is featured on the cover and talks about, among other things how he cried when telling his mentor that he was leaving Gordon Ramsay Holdings.
“Sarge” as he is affectionately called was quoted as saying “It was the hardest decision of my life, like getting divorced,” when discussing his agony over leaving the company with which he made his name after thirteen years of loyal service. He stepped down from Gordon Ramsay at Claridges early last year and then broke all ties in November, although he denies that it was on bad terms.
I’ll have to ‘go to the videotape’ but I’m fairly certain that Sarge was one of the two chefs being blasted and matched against each other one one of Gordon’s first television shows (which aired last millenium!) – Gordon Ramsay’s Boiling Point.
Here are the links to the videos from Gordon Ramsay’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Feb 25. The interview is in two parts and always Jimmy Kimmel was merciless with Gordon. Gordon Ramsay’s tweet after the show said “great time on jimmy kimmel last night, god he gives me shit but really good show” (you can follow Gordon @gordonramsay01).
They talk Kitchen Nightmares, truffles, marathon running, his weekly weigh-in courtesy of his wife Tana and Gordon was back to his bleeping best!
The youtube account only lets Americans watch the clips, so here’s the direct links to ABC where anyone can view them!
Gordon Ramsay appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show on Tuesday 24th Feb and as he relayed via his Twitter account (@gordonramsay01) gave himself quite a nasty cut while demonstrating his Spicy Vegetable Stir Fry. In his Tweet Gordon said “Wow while on @TheEllenShow I sliced my finger and nail chopping an onion. haven’t done that in 10 years”.
I found it strange that Gordon Ramsay spoke to The News of The World (since they spend most of their time trashing him) and also that they said Gordon was the father of three in the intro and then listed the names of his four kids halfway through!
Highlight of the interview were the insight into Gordon Ramsay’s new cookbook from the latest season of the F Word, called Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen. Gordon said that the series and the book was all about “was getting really good ethnic food, fantastic Indian recipes, Chinese and Thai recipes, fantastic French food and putting these ideas together… Fantastic curries, fantastic Pad Thai, great Chinese food, simple French cooking and then the modern British aspect.”
You can also find out what is behind the Red Horns that wife Tana gave him for his birthday!
Also get Gordon’s thoughts on his kids learning to cook, his success overseas and his new series Masterchef – get the full interview here;
