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In 2005 Gordon Ramsay made history with a £100 truffle based pizza, which he sold out of Gordon Ramsay’s Maze in London’s Grosvenor Square. It was a thin pizza base topped with onion puree, truffle paste, fontina cheese, baby mozzarella, pancetta and cep mushrooms and sprinkled with shavings of fresh Italian white truffle.

Then last week on Twitter Gordon Ramsay announced that pizzas were going on the menu in Hell’s Kitchen, which he is currently shooting in Los Angeles.

Now, in a recent report from Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, “They are planning to add seating to Nonna’s delicatessen at the York & Albany, which has a wood-fired oven,” says his spokesman.

“The gourmet pizzas are proving extremly popular. This is definitely not a relaunch of the restaurant, which is doing well.”

Here is the full story – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7230925/Gordon-Ramsay-is-the-pizza-man.html

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The far inferior American sister show to Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, will air on Channel 4 Feb 12 at 9pm only weeks after the third season of series premiered in the USA. First to get the now reduced three day Gordon ramsay treatment is the Hot Potato Café in Fishtown, Philadelphia.

Watch at your own peril!

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Here is an article that talks about the legendary British Hotel ‘The Savoy’ and the only part of it in which makes it news here – Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant – The Savoy Grill.

Apparently they are dropping over £100 million on refurbishments of the over 120 year old establishment, reports claim that the Savoy Grill was once regarded as London’s power-broking lunch destination par excellence. A quote from the article accredits Gordon Ramsay as saying that he is relaxed about the delay but the grill was one of Gordon Ramsay Holdings biggest money spinners and the reopening cannot come a moment too soon.

Most of the interview discusses the Hotel with only a few lines dedicated to Gordon Ramsay and the Savoy Grill – check it out here http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23802696-will-the-savoy-ever-regain-its-long-lost-glamour.do

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Michel Roux is a legend in the culinary arts and an interview was recently featured in an Australian newspaper in which he spoke about his life and one of his most famous proteges!

Here is a quote from the article;

‘But when it comes to one of their most famous proteges, Gordon Ramsay, who Roux says spent more than two years at Le Gavroche, he feels deep disappointment. “I find [Ramsay's behaviour] appalling; totally out of place and totally unacceptable,” Roux says.

“He never behaved like that, ever, when he was with us. He was about 22 or 24 and was a very docile young man. I think it’s the media world that made him like that, to use the F-word every minute or two, and he did it. He should never have accepted, but now he is enjoying it obviously, and it’s bad news.”

Does he rate Ramsay as a chef? “That guy is not better than anyone else; he’s a good chef but certainly not one of the best we have trained, certainly not,” Roux says. “When you’ve got 5000 or 10,000 people paying to see him do a demo or talking, I’m just thinking, well, the world is mad.”

Check out the full interview here http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/executive-lifestyle/the-truth-about-gordon/story-e6frg8jo-1225827047282

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