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With locations in London and New York City, Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant focuses on quality ingredients, imaginative flavor combinations, and simple preservations. The dishes are served in small portions, enabling patrons to savor a wide variety of tastes in one visit. This cookbook gives readers the opportunity to cook the Maze way. But it is more than a collection of the restaurant’s best recipes. The book explains how each dish would be served in the restaurant, following which additional recipes are offered using the same ingredients. Each signature dish — for example, Braised Shin of Veal with Pea Risotto and Butter-Roasted Cod with Silky Mash and Spiced Lentils — is followed by two additional recipes using the same ingredients and geared to the home cook. Covering starters, entrees, and desserts, Gordon Ramsay’s Maze shows how to make meals both artful and delicious, all highlighted by Ditte Isager’s gorgeous photographs.

The book will be released in October of this year, published by Key Porter Books – Pre order your cop now by clicking on the above links.

We’ll have more information on the specifics of the cookbook as they are released!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
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Gordon Ramsay arrives in Melbourne Thursday for the start of his extensive Australian culinary tour. In interviews conducted days prior Gordon Ramsay has confirmed that his ‘Maze’ restaurant, will still be opening at the Crown Casino complex next year and he will be checking on progress while completing his duties at the local Good Food and Wine festival this weekend.

Despite Gordon Ramsay’s admission of tough economic times severely hitting his restaurant empire, Gordon Ramsay Holding, and the forced sell-off of several overseas ventures, it seems that Maze will still be going ahead> It will be following Gordon’s Ramsay’s mantra of featuring local produce including Australian Seafood. In extensive interview with the Herald Sun Newspaper Gordon Ramsay was quoted as saying;

“It’s a tremendously exciting project for me where I’ll be among some of the best and most creative chefs in the world – Tetsuya, Matt Moran, Neil Perry and Shannon Bennett. “And bugger me, I’ll be in Melbourne, the food capital of Australia. What a place to open.”

Gordon Ramsay also stated in the same interview;

“Australia is home to some of the most spectacular produce in the world,” and that “seafood is in abundance, which is refreshing in comparison to some of the problems we’re having in the UK.”

The full interview can be seen at Gordon Ramsay opening new restaurant.

Gordon Ramsay will be appearing at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine Festival on the following dates, after which it is off to host fund-raising events at Sanctuary Cove (rumoured to be followed by a short Queensland holiday) and then Perth.

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

It is unclear where Gordon Ramsay will be after his final Perth date of June 25, since he will be back in Sydney for their Good Food and Wine show in early June.

Stay tuned to the Plonker Club for all of the latest Gordon Ramsay news and views.

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

While other reports have sighted Gordon Ramsay in Los Angeles prerparing for the latest season Of Kitchen Nightmares USA (and been trashing him about his alleged fake tan and lighter coloured hair – such important topics!) the real news is Gordon Ramsay in South Africa.

As part of the ever expanding Gordon Ramsay Holdings – the latest edition of the restaurant MAZE, will be opening in Capetown. It will be part of the ‘One and Only’ Resort and feature the now almost-standard Chef’s Table. We can only wonder if it will follow the Gordon Ramsay theme of featuring ‘local produce’ and if so, exactly what that would be (insert least favourite African animal here!)?

No rumours yet surrounding a Hell’s Kitchen show, as there is around the Australian version of Maze in 2010, but since doora are apparently opening on May 1 of this year, I figure not even Gordon Ramsay himself could pull that one off!

The notoriously slow official Gordon Ramsay Fansite has no mention of the restaurant, under the restaurant section, nor under the news section – the latest news is from November talking about bookings for New Years Eve!

Caterersearch.com was the source of most of this information and had an official comment about plans for further opening of ‘Maze’ restaurants across Europe and Australasia that are currently in negotiations!

So if you are in Capetown after May 1, get down to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and get your taste of Gordon Ramsay – South African Style!

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