Food: Hothead Hits It Big

Newsweek, April, 2005 by Nicki Gostin

Two things that really annoy British culinary dynamo Gordon Ramsay: the "celebrity chef" label ("I loathe it") and British taxi drivers ("The bastards won't stop for me"). Fortunately for Ramsay, there are plenty of cabs in New York City, where he is scheduled to open a restaurant next April. He's got a cookbook coming out, too, and Fox has filmed him in a reality series. He'll be starring in two shows on BBC America: "Beyond Boiling Point" and "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited," where the celebrity chef (c'mon, that's what you are, Gordon!) serves up a ton of expletives. Ramsay, who trained under chefs like Guy Savoy, offers no apologies for his management approach: "You have to take the rap when the s--t hits the fan. If you don't want that level of pressure, then f--- off...

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