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    Humble Pie
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Humble Pie

    Written by Gordon Ramsay

    Narrated by Gordon Ramsay

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    About this audiobook

    Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story…

    This is Gordon Ramsay’s autobiography – the first time he has told 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.
    • and 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 16, 2006
    ISBN9780007248025
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    Humble Pie
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    Gordon Ramsay

    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.

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful Insightful so much learnt and even more appreciate Gordon the Man.
    • 1/5
      The audio is all jumpy so I can’t listen to it why is this??
    • 5/5
      I love Gordon so much and listening to his life story and how he got successful is truly amazing.
      He narrates this and it just makes it more perfect like he's talking to you himself.
    • 3/5
      Well, it certainly reads like Ramsey wrote it himself. There was no ghostwriter. This is a very very short book, but interesting if you want to know more about his life up to now.
    • 4/5
      After reading this autobiography, I feel like I have a much better sense of what drives Gordon Ramsay in his relentless pursuit of excellence and I have even more respect for him that I did before.
    • 3/5
      When Montaigne met his King, Henry told him he liked his book. "Then," replied Montaigne, "your Majesty must needs like me, for I am my book". And Gordon Ramsey could say the same about 'Humble Pie'. It's brash, self serving, full of what one's mother used to call 'vulgar language', over the top reactions to what seems like the just criticism of others, arrogant self-righteousness and large doses of special pleading. In other words, it's a great read!At the risk of contradicting the comments I have just made, I have say that it is an honest book. After all, it's Gordon Ramsey's book, so who expects anyone to be really hard on himself in his own book? Especially someone like Ramsey, whose ego is as big, or even bigger, than one of those huge kitchens he describes and in which we spend a lot of time as he takes us through the politics of 'high-end' cooking. And what politicking there is! Creepy Italians, dodgy London geezers, supercilious French master chefs. And Gordon himself. No angel. But he's a man, for a' that. And what a man! ploughing through conspiracies, the slings and shots of outrageous fortune, and his own inability to suffer fools gladly.The book tears along at a furious pace. Unlike many 'celebrity' autobiographies, there's very little padding and no boring stories about other cooks and what a great joy it was to work with them. There are stories about other cooks, but they're NOT boring!). I think you may feel his father gets a fairly rough innings in this book, maybe a little too rough. But you will certainly be touched by his efforts, extending over years, to help his brother out of trouble, and you will admire his absolute determination never to settle for second best as a chef. Also I am sure you will end up seeing through the make-up and getting a glimpse of the warts underneath. At all events, you will be struck by how much the book resembles the man himself. I think Montaigne might have liked it.
    • 4/5
      It took me a while to start reading this one. I bought it for my Kindle for a couple of bucks. I am a fan of Ramsay, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. I always figure, if someone takes the time to write a memoir, they had it pretty bad or why bother, who would care? Well Ramsay's childhood was pretty messed up, and this book shows why he is who he is. Growing up with the obstacles he did, will either make you or break you. In his case, he made it. There is coarse language in the book, but I did expect that as he doesn't hold back on TV either. Pretty well written and informative. Now I have a softer spot for him. I understand his need for perfection comes from, I understand what drives him, I understand why he expects so much from others.
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for chef bios, and I loved Ramsay in 'Hell's Kitchen'. The book wasn't particularly well-written, I thought, but I enjoyed the story. it was very raw and genuine. The sort of book that makes me glad I didn't opt to be a chef. Interesting.
    • 3/5
      Gordon Ramsay is not a great writer but he does manage to write well enough to convey the essence of his puppy rotweiller personality movingly and his story - Glasgow abused child to billionaire chef -is an inspiring one. The cusine ladder he climbs to achieve his aim is fascinating and takes you from London, to Paris, to West Indies. The deals are mafia cum Dragons Den. I found it very genuine especially the section on the inadequacies he feels in coping with his junkie brother and how it feels like history repeating itself.Just wish he would stop fucking swearing all the time in the book. I can just about allow it in the pressure of a busy kitchen in a reality TV show but in a book!! Not cool. Not clever.
    • 3/5
      It considered it a good read, not because it was such a good book, but because it gave me a good background on Gordon Ramsay. And this is what biographies should do. It was written in a style which you can expect from the master chef with the F-word on his "toque" :-).
    • 4/5
      Gordon's childhood is tragic and heartbreaking. After reading this, I have a new respect for him. Self made man really describes him.
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for chef bios, and I loved Ramsay in 'Hell's Kitchen'. The book wasn't particularly well-written, I thought, but I enjoyed the story. it was very raw and genuine. The sort of book that makes me glad I didn't opt to be a chef. Interesting.