The Plonker Club

Gordon Ramsay will be the headliner once again at this years Good Food and Wine Show, held at Darling Harbour July 3-5. Gordon will be performing various cooking demonstrations in the LG Celebrity Cooking area (which you will need to pay extra to get into) and their was also Gordon Ramsay VIP packages available which included show entry, premium seating for one of Gordon’s cooking shows and a Gordon Ramsay Cookbook, as well as other goodies!

Gordon Ramsay will be appearing in the celebrity theatre at the following times;

Friday July 3

9-30am to 10am

1-15pm to 1-45pm

After Dark Sessions

6pm to 6-30pm

8pm to 8-30pm

Saturday July 4

9-30am to 10am

12-30pm to 1pm

3pm to 3-30pm

4-15pm to 4-45pm

Sunday July 5

9-30am to 10am

12-30pm to 1pm

3pm to 3-30pm

If you are going to the show but don;t want to cough up the money to see Gordon Ramsay cook – he will be appearing for book signings at the following times (word of advice – line up at least an hour before to see Gordon!!)

Friday July 3

10-15am to 11-15am

2pm to 3pm

After Dark Sessions

6-40pm to 7-10pm

Saturday July 4

10-15am to 11-15am

1-30pm to 2-15pm

3-45pm to 4-15pm

5-15pm to 6pm

Sunday July 5

10-15am to 11-15am

1-30pm to 2-15pm

3-45pm to 4-45pm

Get out and support Gordon Ramsay – for more information visit the official Goof Food and Wine Show Website at www.goodfoodshow.com.au

Chief Plonker

The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com

Here’s a great Gordon Ramsay story from his first appearance on his North American Book Tour promtoing Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite

Here’s a teaser from the story

They came to see the real Gordon Ramsay, and the British celebrity chef did not disappoint.

Wearing his signature, form-fitting black T-shirt and designer jeans, the 42-year-old chef let a few choice expletives fly, titillating his fans – a few of them definitely under the minimum age of 18 for an R-rating.

When interviewer and restaurateur Peter Oliver asked Ramsay if he allowed cellphones in his restaurants, the chef said patrons are asked to leave them at the front desk.

“Anyone who walks into my restaurant and has a telephone on the table I shove it up their a– sideways,” he said at last night’s on-stage interview at the Toronto Reference Library, sponsored by The Cookbook Store.

Get the Full story at www.theplonkerclub.com

I reported a few days ago that several session of Gordon Ramsay at the Good Food and Wine Show were sold out. I now know that this wasn’t the case – but I thought I had it from a good source – the ticket vendors themselves – Ticketek!

Now I have tickets to an earlier show that will be a pain in the ass to get to, because of some kind of stuff up. If you spent anytime online trying to order, with no success you may have had the same problem that I did. There is a section that says something to the effect of enter your promotional code – if you don’t put your customer number in (despiet being logged in) – you won’t be able to proceed!

I also found it annoying that there was no mention on the Tictek website of the Good Food and Wine Show nor Gordon Ramsay, the day before, searches just came up blank!

Anyway, tickets are unlikely to sell out soon for Gordon Ramsay’s cooking demonstrations since the organisers have a new 2 500 seat theatre (I feel sorry for the opther chefs who are trying to fill it!

As the promoters said “Gordon was such a massive hit at last year’s Sydney show, we thought it only fitting that we bring him back to give Sydneysiders another chance to see him and give Melbourne a piece of the pie too,” said James Laing, exhibition director.

If there was another way to get tickets, believe me I would be recommending it! Here’s what you will see at the Sydney and Melbourne Good Food and Win shows – remember everything is included in your tickets price EXCEPT seeing Gordon Ramsay’s cooking demonstration.

The site also says that “Book Signing – Chefs appearing in the Celebrity Theatre will be signing their books in the Book Store located near the Theatre for approximately 30mins after each of their sessions. ” Since the line for Gordon Ramsay last year was over an hourn long – you might want to line up one show before or after the one you plan on attending.

Gordon Ramsay at The Good Food and Wine Show Melbourne

Session Friday 5th Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:45pm – 1:15pm
2 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 2:00pm – 2:30pm
3 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 3:15pm – 3:45pm
4 MasterChef Australia Live 4:30pm – 5:00pm
5 Gordon Ramsay Live 6:00pm – 6:30pm
6 Gordon Ramsay Live 8:00pm – 8:30pm

Session Saturday 6th June Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:00pm – 12:30pm
4 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 1:15pm – 1:45pm
5 MasterChef Australia Live 2:30pm – 3:00pm
6 Gordon Ramsay Live 3:45pm – 4:15pm

Session Sunday 7th June Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
4 MasterChef Australia Live 1:45pm – 2:15pm
5 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 3:00pm – 3:30pm
6 Gordon Ramsay Live 4:15pm – 4:45pm

Session Monday 8th June Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Tobie Puttock & Matt Moran 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
4 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 1:45pm – 2:15pm
5 Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm

Gordon Ramsay at the Good Food and Wine Show Sydney

Session Friday 3rd July Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 12:00pm – 12:30pm
4 Gordon Ramsay Live 1:15pm – 1:45pm
5 MasterChef Australia Live 2:30pm – 3:00pm
6 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 3:45pm – 4:15pm

Session Friday 3rd July ‘After Dark’ Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 6:00pm – 6:30pm
2 Gordon Ramsay Live 7:15pm – 7:45pm

Session Saturday 4th July Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
4 MasterChef Australia Live 1:45pm – 2:15pm
5 Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm
6 Gordon Ramsay Live 4:15pm – 4:45pm

Session Sunday 5th July Times
1 Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
2 Tobie Puttock – The Italian Job 10:45am – 11:15am
3 Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
4 Matt Moran – Sharpen your Knives 1:45pm – 2:15pm
5 Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Tickets went on sale this morning for Gordon Ramsay at the Melbourne and Sydney Good Food and Wine Festival. Standard tickets will get entry to everything but the Gordon Ramsay 30 min demonstration – that will cost you $20 extra.

But for the dedicated fan there is an Gordon Ramsay VIP Package called a Ramsay Pass for $80 which gets you a cookbook and premium seating (Can you believe they are giving away ‘Healthy Appetites’ – they were selling it when he was here last year – there’s been one new cookbook since then (Gordon Ramsay Cooking for Friends) and Great British Pub Food will also be out by then).

I tried to log on and get VIP tickets at half and hour after they went on sale and two out of the eleven sessions had already sold out in Sydney. I ended up getting okay seats on another day. Who knows what is available now.

Get over to Ticketek and get your seats now!

Gordon Ramsay at The Good Food and Wine Show – Melbourne

Friday 5th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:45pm – 1:15pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 6:00pm – 6:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 8:00pm – 8:30pm

Saturday 6th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:00pm – 12:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:45pm – 4:15pm

Sunday 7th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 4:15pm – 4:45pm

Monday 8th June
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm

Gordon Ramsay at The Good Food and Wine Show – Sydney

Friday 3rd July
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 1:15pm – 1:45pm

Friday 3rd July ‘After Dark’
Gordon Ramsay Live 6:00pm – 6:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 7:15pm – 7:45pm

Saturday 4th July
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 4:15pm – 4:45pm

Sunday 5th July
Gordon Ramsay Live 9:30am – 10:00am
Gordon Ramsay Live 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Gordon Ramsay Live 3:00pm – 3:30pm

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Months ago, the Plonker Club reported that Gordon ramsay would be hosting his own Cookalong Live show in the US, Gordon Ramsay has now confirmed this in a recent interview and also talked about another new cooking special he will be shooting in May.

Here is a direct quote from Gordon Ramsay when asked about the new show

Gordon Ramsay “Yes, of course. First of all, I have to say, cooking in Hell’s Kitchen is like a live scenario anyway. The producers are constantly chasing my butt saying, “We would like to see this.” I’m saying, “What would you like to see?”

I’m not interested. All I want to see is food on a plate. I can’t script a service. I don’t know how early or late the customer’s going to turn up, so everything is very natural. So in that sense we cook live.

The live cook along, yes, it has been picked up and it’s going to be a huge excitement. I can’t wait to go live. I suppose the frustration is the sort of cooking shows on air currently that don’t cook.

It’s one that was prepped earlier by some home economist behind the scenes and that’s not cooking. Cooking is a passion and it’s live and it’s really nice to show that journey from a raw ingredient to an hour later something finished. And for me the confidence levels go up tenfold, a 1000%, because you’re following it and it’s changing its texture and the flavor’s getting better and you get more and more confident as you start with a raw ingredient. So, I’m really excited that Fox is excited about the live show and it’s something I can’t wait for.

No cursing, that’s the deal. So I’m fucked.”

Gordon Ramsay’s other show, was also brought up in a later question – again here is a quote

Gordon Ramsay: “So I have a huge excitement this May on visiting India for the first time in my career and I’m going on a journey, because I’m going to the region, I’m backpacking and I suppose I want to come down two or three divisions and sort of get to the heart of the food of the people.

And it’s called Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape and I’m really excited about it because it’s being left in a situation along with sort of …, but going a little bit deeper into the sort of cult social following and where it started, and looking at the beginning, the heartbeat of how that dish was formulated. And to what’s happened, to how many people have abused it along the way to where we are now. So yes, always learning; constantly.”

These comments were part of a much larger interview which can be flouond at http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/features/article_1456611.php/Hells_Kitchens_Gordon_Ramsay_the_full_interview

We can never have enough Gordon Ramsay!

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

So I have a huge excitement this May on visiting India for the first time in my career and I’m going on a journey, because I’m going to the region, I’m backpacking and I suppose I want to come down two or three divisions and sort of get to the heart of the food of the people.
And it’s called Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape and I’m really excited about it because it’s being left in a situation along with sort of …, but going a little bit deeper into the sort of cult social following and where it started, and looking at the beginning, the heartbeat of how that dish was formulated. And to what’s happened, to how many people have abused it along the way to where we are now. So yes, always learning; constantly.