Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire

✍ Scribed by Ramsay, Gordon

• Book ID: 109700472
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 884 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007280070

✦ Synopsis

Not a sausage. That is what Gordon Ramsay had when he started out as a chef, working 16-hour days, 6 days a week. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, he didn't think he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here's how. "In the beginning there was nothing. Not a sausage - penniless, broke, fucking nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didn?t matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the ?all-time dysfunctional? poker hand. I wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasn?t like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place - before, as they...