British chefs

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, John Burton Race, Martha Lloyd, Diana Kennedy, Elisha Carter, Raymond Blanc, William Curley, Simon Radley, Mark Sargeant, Abdul Latif, Tommy Miah, William Poon, Yotam Ottolenghi, Simon Rimmer, Philip Harben, Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, Gizzi Erskine, Aldo Zilli, Mat Follas, Tony Singh, Sophie Wright, Anthony Flinn, Ed Baines, Christopher Pond, Garrey Dawson, Sue Lawrence, Susan Spaull, Sat Bains, Gilli Davies, Paul Hollywood, Paul Heathcote. Excerpt: Gordon James Ramsay, OBE (born 8 November 1966) is a Scottish chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded 12 Michelin stars. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the U.S. versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and MasterChef. Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England from the age of 5. Ramsay's father Gordon (died 1997) was, at various times, a swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his mother, Helen Cosgrove, and younger sister Yvonne have been nurses. Ramsay has a brother, Ronnie. Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", as his family moved constantly due to the aspirations and failures of his father, who was violent. In 1976, they finally settled in Stratford-upon-Avon where he grew up in the Bishopton area of the town. In past public interviews, Ramsay has declined to describe his father as an alcoholic; however, his autobiography, Humble Pie, describes his early life as being marked by abuse and neglect from this "hard-drinking womaniser". At the age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family house into a flat in Banbury. Ramsay played football and was first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12. He was chosen to play for Warwickshire. His football career was marked by a number of injuries, causing him to remark later in life, "Perhaps I was doomed when it came to football". In mid-1984, Ramsay had a trial with Rangers, the club he supported as a boy. He seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage during training. Ramsay continued to train and play on the injured knee, tearing a cruciate ligament during a squash game. He never fully recovered from the double injury. Ramsay has claimed to have played two first team games for Rangers, according to his autobiography Ramsay played "a couple of non-l