📗 Libro en inglés HUMBLE PIE

Everyone thinks they know the real gordon ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. but this is his bestselling real story… humble pie tells the full story of how he became the world’s most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother’s heroin addiction and his failed first career as a footballer: all of these things have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. gordon talks frankly about: * his tough childhood: his father’s alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings, * his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to scotland when he was signed by glasgow rangers at the age of fifteen, and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later, * his brother’s heroin addiction. * gordon’s early career: learning his trade in paris and london; how his career developed from there: his time in paris under albert roux and his seven michelin-starred restaurants. * kitchen life: gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in anthony bourdain-style. * how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for success. seguir leyendo críticas ‘gordon ramsay’s humble pie – so exuberantly angry boastful, cliche-ridden, expletive-laden and touchingly sincere that i can’t believe that a single sentence has been written by anyone but the failed footballer, great cook, telly star and businessman himself. he’s the genuine bollocks, as he’s so fond of saying, and this is the tale of his personal class struggle.’ – the observer ´inspirational stuff.´ heat ‘i cannot recommend strongly enough that every bii member reads it. it´s so refreshing and energising – and oddly the fact that every fifth word begins with ´f´ adds to its charm, its passion and its delight…the book is an inspiration. anybody running any kind of business will benefit from reading this.’ bii business magazine biografía del autor gordon ramsay has launched a string of internationally celebrated restaurants in london with ten michelin stars between them, and has restaurants in dubai, tokyo, new york and florida, with more planned. the author of numerous bestselling cookery books and two autobiographies, humble pie and playing with fire, gordon is one of the biggest television personalities in the uk with his hit shows, ramsay´s kitchen nightmares, hell´s kitchen and the f word. he was awarded an obe in 2006. seguir leyendo