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If you missed Gordon Ramsay on NBCs The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, here is there link (sorry, it appears to only work in the US – I’m sure the savvy internet surfer can find alternative sources!)
www.theplonkerclub.com

A few more Gordon Ramsay interviews from his junket promting Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite. Gordon Ramsay must have been really impressed with the restaurant in Whistler and how they sourced eveything locally – I think he has mentioned it on every interview!

Gordon Ramsay on Cityline (Canada)
Gordon Ramsay on Greens and Healthy Eating as well as Hell’s Kitchen and paying out on another host with too much bodyfat (in his opinion!)
http://www.cityline.ca/video/?bcpid=3215207001&bclid=4589259001&bctid=13312664001

Gordon Ramsay on Rachael Ray
This teaser is called audience Taste test 10 audience members presenting their signature dishes (and spat the bad ones into a bucket) and he doesn’t hold back on these women!
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/gordon-ramsays-audience-taste-test

A Short backstage clip where Gordon Ramsay reveals his Favourite Meal, Worst Job and Craziest Restaurant Moment (involving women’s underwear as a side dish!)
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/segments/view/backstage-gordon-ramsay

Hopefully the actual segment from the show will be posted shortly!

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

All Gordon Ramsay – All the time – News for Feb 10

Hopefully the links are sorted, so click on the article’s title to get the full story!

Lets kick it off with the Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite Tour of Canada and the US.

Gordon Ramsay Hitting Up Toronto – andPOP – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
(andPOP) – Hell’s favorite chef, Gordon Ramsay, is set to make a pit stop in Toronto next weekend. According to E! News, the celebrity chef- known for his …
Quote – According to E! News, the celebrity chef- known for his popular programs of Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and the F-word- will be doing a publicity circuit in support of his latest book ‘Healthy Appetite’.

Gordon Ramsay titillates Toronto – Toronto Life – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
If Gordon Ramsay is in Toronto, who is making culinary train wrecks cry on reality television? The famed British restaurateur—known as much for his Michelin …
Top Quote – Ramsay’s previous interviews with Toronto’s own George Stroumboulopoulos cooked up much amusement—it turns out that Ramsay’s loose-tongued manner is not an act. He talks straight (and sometimes dirty) on his own eating habits, troubled boyhood and celebrity status. Perhaps this time, he will let loose on being cast as a Christian role model.

Here’s a heads up for people who buy Foodie magazines and may get sucked into this one because the name Gordon Ramsay appears on the cover!
The Food Magazine- Well Fed Network – USA
The story teasers on the front read like a who’s who of the culinary world: Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Ina Garten, Nigella Lawson. … After reading through the whole issue, most of the recipes are reprints from coobooks. Gordon Ramsay’s “Healthy Appetite,” Nigella Lawson’s “Nigella Express: Good Food Fast,” and Ina Garten’s “Back to Basics.” There’s very little original recipe development in this publication. I don’t mean that as a criticism, necessarily; if you were considering one of these books for your collection, this magazine would give you access to a couple of recipes you could try for yourself, and then make your decision.

This is a bit of a nothing article – more just a survey, but the links another have a good rundown of previous Hell’s Kitchen episodes featuring our favourite Chef Gordon Ramsay!
Have You Ever Shucked a Scallop? - YumSugar.com – San Francisco,CA,USA
On last Thursday’s episode of Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay showed the chefs how to shuck scallops. I found the brief lesson to be incredibly informative, …

A detailed article about the impact of the financial crisis on top chefs like Gordon Ramsay and lesser locations too!
Munch crunch: Britain’s restaurant crisis
Independent – London,England,UK
Martin Hickman and Tim Walker report on a simmering kitchen nightmare GORDON RAMSAY: The chef’s global restaurant chain has a reported overdraft of £10.5m. …
Top Quote – Last month alone, more than 100 British restaurants went out of business. But it’s not just the Michelin brigade who are in hot water. Martin Hickman and Tim Walker report on a simmering kitchen nightmare

Interesting commentary from a new Gordon Ramsay Employee on the New Season of Hell’s Kitchen – last years winner Christina
Hell’s Kitchen’ Insider: “Chef Ramsay Loves a Fighter” – BuddyTV – Seattle,WA,USA
For those living in LA, it is restaurant week, and we have been busier than ever at The Gordon Ramsay. I was once asked, “Why would you want to work fifteen …
Top Quote – I cannot tell you how many sizzle reels there are of me falling from last season. In one clip, we were racing against the boys to complete a dinner service. I was bringing the last dessert order to the pass, and felt myself going down. I looked at the two items in my hand, a souffle and a creme brulee, and decided to save the souffle, as it took 20 minutes just to bake. The floor is treacherous. It is not like a real kitchen. It is more like industrial linoleum, where any water or food scrap is a potential hazard. You learn this as you advance in Hell’s Kitchen, and try to work around it. It just angers me that such a stupid accident took out one of this season’s strongest competitors so far.

This is Getting F$%king Old and F%@king Boring
Ramsay under investigation after breaking record for swearing – Britain News – London,London,UK
London, Feb 9 : British chef Gordon Ramsay has come under the scrutiny of the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom, after he broke the world record for swearing on …

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

This much anticipated interview aired a few hours ago and amazingly the CBC website share the videos and don’t limit viewing to the regions in which they are aired – thank you!

Gordon answers a number of questions about when he will be opening his restaurant in Canada (it will be in one of two sites in Toronto) and his kids watching his television shows. Gordon Ramsay did include in his standard sledging of UK chefs (naming animals from the F-word after them) and spoke about not attaching his name to some pre-packaged food products – money isn’t everything!

I think the host went on a little too much about cooking for the British and Russian Prime Ministers, but they also covered Gordon Ramsay’s upcoming physical tests – 10th London marathon next month, 5th Comrades in South Africa and his first Ironman in September (Please Gordon, hit the gym – it’s too much cardio – especially if you are planning to keep ripping your shirt off in every television show!).

Gordon Ramsay had something to say about the recent infidelity claims and scandal – firstly bagging out open cheque (check) journalism, the exagerrated stories it inspires and living life in the fishbowl but did comment that for legal reasons he couldn’t go into details specifically about the story!

George and Gordon didn’t suceed in getting through his very fun segments 2/20, which is supposed to be 20 questions in two minutes (i doubt he ever does with interesting guests!

Gordon also spoke passionately about using local produce (recurring theme in many shows and interviews) and probably spoke more about the F-word (which is currently airing in Canada) than the book that he was on the show to promote Gordon Ramsay’s healthy Appetite.

In relation to the “how long would it take him to swear” competition – I think this one will have to go to the judges – if ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ count it was about two minutes and five seconds – if not at about three minutes 57 seconds ‘arse’ was dropped in relation to the pigs he raised for The F-Word.

Check out the interview – starting at 25:20 (so you can skip the clown with the glasses before him) and find out who he thinks the most overreated celebrity chef is!) It is at http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=1028285910 and for a list of all the best Gordon Ramsay Interviews and links to them, go to the Plonker Club homepage – www.theplonkerclub.com

David Driscoll
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.

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