Playing With Fire

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 296 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 didnt think hed be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that hed be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Heres how. "In the beginning there was nothing. Not a sausage - penniless, broke, fucking nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didnt 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 wasnt like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place - before, as they say, I had a pot to piss in. This is the story of how those lessons were learned." This is Gordon Ramsay at his raw, rugged best.P LAYING WITH FIRE is the amazing story of Gordons journey from sous-chef to superstar. In his no-holds-barred style, Gordon shares his passion for risk and adventure and his hard-won success secrets.

ISBN: 9780007259892