Gordon Ramsay's "Cooking for Friends" features
more than 100 recipes of everything from pasta
to pudding.
This fall, the devilishly good-looking but foul-mouthed celebrity chef-cum-reality star Gordon Ramsay is coming out with not one new cookbook, but two: "Cooking for Friends" and "Gordon Ramsay’s Maze."
Despite being busy with his reality shows—Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and The F Word—and running his restaurants in Europe as well as on American soil, Ramsay has had time to pen more cookbooks. One of his latest titles, "Cooking for Friends" (William Morrow Cookbooks), will be published Oct. 13, and his Web site describes the book as something "both novice and more experienced cooks alike will be able to enjoy cooking for their friends and family."
With more than 100 uncomplicated recipes, the book covers Hot and Cold Soups; Pasta and Grains; Fish and Shellfish; Meat and Poultry; Pies and Tarts; Vegetables and Salads; Puddings; and Ices and Coffee and Chocolate, with each recipe featuring an introduction to the dish and tips on how to re-create it, according the the Web site.
Written with Jason Atherton, "Gordon Ramsay's Maze"
has recipes from Ramsay's restaurant Maze, which has
locations in London and New York.
The second cookbook, "Gordon Ramsay’s Maze" (Key Porter Books), takes a slightly different direction from "Cooking for Friends" with its focus on recipes used at Ramsay's London- and New York-located restaurant Maze. In addition to a foreword from Ferran Adrià, a culinary genius whom New York Magazine called "food’s preeminent futurist, the godfather of foam and other gastronomic advances," the book also features contributions from Jason Atherton, head chef at the England-based Maze.
The publisher Key Porter Books describes the cookbook as follows:
Much more than a collection of [Maze's] best recipes, this book presents how each dish would be served in the restaurant, and includes additional recipes using the same main ingredients. With its unique approach and accessible, fresh, modern recipes—all complemented by beautiful photographs—this is a cookbook meant to inspire."
In addition to a myriad of cookbooks, Ramsay has also written a memoir, aptly titled "Humble Pie" (HarperCollins Entertainment), which was published in Britain in 2006.
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