Roasting in Hell's Kitchen by Gordon Ramsay

Author:Gordon Ramsay [Ramsay, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Cooks, Great Britain, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Personal Memoirs, Cooking, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Business
ISBN: 9780061191985
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-03-13T06:00:00+00:00

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York-based Private Equity Company, so I had to keep everyone sweet for rather longer than I had expected. It was tricky: like holding a baby and chopping an onion at the same time. Whenever Marco brought up the subject of the Café Royal, I’d smile innocently, and make vaguely enthusiastic noises. And whenever the Italians brought up the subject of my contract with them, I’d smile sweetly and tell them that I just needed to run the whole thing past my lawyers. The smirk on my face must have been a mile wide, we had secured funding for Royal Hospital Road and unbeknownst to anyone else, we were on our way to the real start line. Ironically it was also the first time we had heard the name ‘Blackstone’ which was later to fly us to the stars.

In the end, although I was never called I would have testified for Marco. I had my reasons. It certainly had nothing to do with his arse-kissing – or even to do with the fact that I didn’t actually think he would do something as stupid as put ink in risotto nero. Apart from anything else, it would stain the customer’s teeth. Basically, I agreed to give evidence for him if he did the same for me. His said that the Italians had approached him to stitch me up –

information I thought might come in rather handy at some point.

If I ever needed reminding that I was doing the right thing in escaping Marco’s clutches once and for all, it came during a conversation we had outside The Mirabelle in 155

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