Cooking For Friends: Food From My Table by Gordon Ramsay (HarperCollins, £25) (From The Northern Echo)

Cooking For Friends: Food From My Table by Gordon Ramsay (HarperCollins, £25)

5:27pm Friday 3rd October 2008 in Food & Drink By Jenny Needham, Features Editor

TV’s most popular chef, Gordon Ramsay, bridges the gap between his famous chef’s table (situated in the white heat of his restaurant kitchen) and his table at home with Tana and their young family.

His latest cookbook is packed with simple, seasonal, modern British recipes. Gordon lives life in the fast lane, travelling the world to foster his many business enterprises and to film his highly acclaimed TV series. But, despite the commitments of a busy work life, he has always believed that families should sit around their tables to eat together as much as possible.

This latest cookbook gathers together more than 100 inspiring and well-constructed recipes which embody Gordon’s strongly held opinion that we should support local producers and farmers’ markets, that we should cook with seasonal fresh ingredients which haven’t travelled miles to reach our plates and that we should celebrate the wealth of regional dishes available to us, from Cornish crab soup to Bakewell tart.