How Gordon Ramsay’s social media project during pandemic lockdown led to a new cookbook on quick home meals: Ramsay in 10
- The TV chef and celebrity has released his 31st book, this time on 10-minute meals that can be made at home
- Inspired by his social media series of meals cooked in a flash, Ramsay has filled the book with short cuts and tips
How did Gordon Ramsay spend his pandemic lockdown? Getting frenetic in a kitchen, of course.
The chef with a dizzying number of books, restaurants and TV shows was at home in Cornwall, England, with mouths to feed last year when he did a series of lives on Instagram cooking meals in 10 minutes or less. The fast-moving endeavour he began on YouTube the year before culminated in Ramsay in 10, his latest cookbook filled with recipes made against the clock.
“There’s so much fun to be had in cooking food that doesn’t need to take 60 or 70 minutes at a time,” he says on Zoom from Los Angeles. “Ramsay in 10 was a bit of a miracle because it’s the first time in 20 years anyone’s ever said to me, ‘Stop. Time out’.”
The world is used to seeing a sped-up – and sometimes terrifying – Ramsay, saving failing restaurants, judging chefs competing for prize money, scaling Sicilian cliffs in search of the perfect octopus. But it’s not used to seeing him run around his own kitchen surrounded by his wife Tana Ramsay and their kids, ranging from two to 23.
The Instagram Lives tickled thousands of fans with the rare treat of seeing Ramsay cook in real time.
