For my college course I want to do Gordan Ramsay style food dining. What type of food is this?

Question

What type of cuisine is this? I basically want to do expensive nosh so I need the appropriate name!

Answer 1

Ramsays cooking is extremely individualistic, but belongs essentialy to the genre of French Haute Cuisine. You will eventually be able to move towards the emulation of Ramsays cooking if you start with a basic cookery course.

You will need to learn the whole gamut of cooking, as the base stocks from which Ramsays sauces are made must be mastered, as well as the selection of ingredients, how to prepare, bone and fillet meat and fish and a myriad other things.

Research the cooking of such past luminaries as Careme, Alexis Soyer and Escoffier. Then buy and read 'Practical Cooking' by Ceserani and Kinton (States-side readers could look at the work of Wayne Gisslen) If you can hack what you find therein, you might just make it as a chef.

Take my word - there are no shortcuts in professional cooking.

Good luck, happy cooking and bon appetit.

EDIT

Well said, Arthur R. After I had got my City and Guilds, I cooked as I was told until I got my own kitchen (galley, really, it was in a ship). I was impressed with the style of cooking of Antony Worral-Thompson, and I experimented until I found my feet. No true chef wishes to be a clone of anyone else, but we are all influenced by the great and good masters. I would say that it took me 9 years before I was beginning to establish a cuisine that was definitely mine, and thirty three years since I first donned an apron, I am still experimenting, learning and developing.

I'm entitled to my tocque (chefs tall hat) and my whites with my name on them, but my partner still maintains that my last, dying words will be 'did I put too much paprika in that Gulyas?'

Answer 2

Gordon Ramsay's Fox show is called h**l's Kitchen. His basic philosophy is to tell people fast food can be flavorful.

You need to research his many cookbooks to learn what constitutes small, savory dishes that are quick to put together and simple to eat.

My suggestion for a name: h**l's Noshes

Answer 3

This is undercooked food stuffed with herbs to mask the taste, served to people who have no idea and have more money than sense.

Answer 4

his will answer all your questions

http://www.gordonramsay.com/ukrestaurant...

Answer 5

I think you need to learn to crawl before you can walk (then run)  If you want to do in your words"expensive nosh" ( which by the way a chef wouldn`t talk like that) you need to learn from the ground up, work hard in quality establishments THEN & only then will you be in a position to choose your gastronomic style. If you are really serious then you should know Ramsey`s style, or Rick Stein`s, or Jamie Oliver`s already.

Answer 6

You're going about this the wrong way, imho. If you mention G.. R..'s name to me or most of my friends, we would probably become rapidly uninterested! And if you don't know his type of cuisine, why choose it?

"Expensive nosh" does not have to follow the examples laid down by so-called chefs such as this man. Why don't you use your imagination and make up your own recipes?

As an assessor, I would much rather see something original than copies of other people's work. I would give credit, even if the result were not perfect (which in your case, I am sure it would be!).

Good luck with the course, whatever you decide.

Answer 7

For those who have not eaten at Gordon Ramsay's, it is not small tasteless portions which are overpriced....It is some of the most sublime food I have ever tasted, served by staff who are attentive but not asking how everything is every five minutes....His style is his own..as Foghorn says, and he should know...you need inspiration and training. Learn the basics first, serve an apprenticeship with a good mentor and when ready by all means have a go.

Opening a restaurant is the riskiest business venture there is. If you call it nosh,believe me, you are no where near ready...a respect for food is probably the main ingredient rather than the food itself....

Answer 8

OVERPRICED

and tasteless