| Gordon Ramsay was born in Scotland, but his | | | | with cooking, celebrity guests, topical VT's and |
| family moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in England | | | | food campaigns. Hell's Kitchen aired in America |
| when he was five years old. He originally planned | | | | 2005 and soon had a viewing audience of over 14 |
| to become a professional soccer player. However, | | | | million fans. This same year Gordon opened his |
| a serious injury ended his athletic aspirations in his | | | | eighth restaurant in England, maze, in Grosvenor |
| uniform polo shirt, so he returned to college and | | | | Square; and Gordon Ramsay at the Conrad in |
| took a course in hotel management. His early | | | | Tokyo. The 2005 New Year's Honours list |
| training in the kitchen was spent working with | | | | awarded Gordon an O.B.E. |
| such luminaries as Albert Roux and Marco Pierre | | | | In 2006 Gordon opened his first American |
| White in London. Then he traveled to France and | | | | restaurant, of Gordon Ramsay, at the London |
| worked for three years under Joel Robuchon and | | | | Hotel in New York City; and followed it the next |
| Guy Savoy, sharpening his expertise in the art of | | | | year with Cielo at Florida's Boca Raton resort. |
| classical French cooking. He became the chef of | | | | 2007 also saw Gordon open his first pub - The |
| newly-opened Aubergine restaurant in 1993, and | | | | Narrow - on the banks of River Thames in |
| within three years he won two Michelin stars. | | | | London. He has since opened two more pubs - |
| Gordon published his first book, Passion for | | | | The Devonshire in London's West End, and The |
| Flavour, in 1996. Since then he has published | | | | Warrington in Maida Vale. In 2008 Gordon opened |
| several more books which were hugely | | | | his first restaurant in his chef coat in Ireland; and |
| successful, the most recent being Gordon | | | | that same year he opened his first restaurant in |
| Ramsay's World Kitchen in 2009. In 1998, when | | | | France in the famous Trianon Palace and Spa; and |
| he was 31, Gordon opened his first wholly-owned | | | | also Gordon Ramsay Plane Food at Heathrow |
| restaurant in Chelsea, and it won three Michelin | | | | Airport's Terminal 5. That same year Gordon |
| stars three years later. He opened Gordon | | | | acquired the world famous Tante Marie Cookery |
| Ramsay at Claridge's in 2001, and it won a Michelin | | | | School to promulgate his ideas about food. Gordon |
| star two years later. In the next two years he | | | | also formed a partnership with the Absolute |
| opened six more restaurants and garnered four | | | | Taste catering company which makes Gordon's |
| more Michelin stars. | | | | unique culinary style and recipes available to the |
| In 2004 Gordon starred in bib apron in the series | | | | English public at their own private parties and |
| Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, which won an | | | | functions, as well as in-flight catering services for |
| International Emmy and a BAFTA. A second | | | | business, executive, and corporate aircraft. In the |
| series, Hell's Kitchen, featured Gordon being given | | | | past two years, Gordon has opened restaurants |
| two weeks to train a group of celebrities in | | | | in Cape Town, Sardinia, and Tuscany with his first |
| Michelin-standard cookery. The next year Gordon | | | | Australian restaurant due to open in 2010. |
| debuted in The F Word, a volatile food program | | | | |