Not a sausage. That is what Gordon Ramsay had when he started out as a chef, working 16-hour days, 6 days a week. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, he didn't think he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here's how. "In the beginning there was nothing. Not a sausage - penniless, broke, fucking nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didn't matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the 'all-time dysfunctional' poker hand. I wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasn't like that. It would take years...
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Helt okej. Inte lika bra som "Humble Pie" men sen så är inte den här boken och den förra särskilt lika varandra. "Playing with Fire" är egentligen inte en fortsättning på "Humble Pie" utan mer en biografi över hur man lyckas med en restaurang. Från allt från kundbemötande till design av badrum. Intressant - stundtals. Kapitlet om kvinnliga kockar var ett av de bästa. Och jag gillade ironin som Gordon tog upp om hur vissa reagerar när de plötsligt tjänar en massa pengar. Samt att jag gillar att han använder sig själv som bra och dåliga exempel vilket jag tycker visar på en bra självinsikt :)