For real life, Gordon Ramsay tones it down

• Charlotte.com
• June 2, 2008
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Is it fair to judge a chef by his television show? Gordon Ramsay, the Michelin-starred British chef and star of Fox's television series “Hell's Kitchen,” doesn't care. If his show distresses you, he suggested while promoting his new cookbook, “Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food,” (Key Porter Books, $35), you can “turn it over.” (That's Britspeak for “change the channel.”) Anyone who judges a chef by his cookbook, however, would have to assume Ramsay is a pussycat. “I use TV to fund my restaurants, so I don't have to be governed by a board of directors who sit in my office and tell me what to do,” said Ramsay, 41, who looked exhausted after signing 300 or so books recently in Chicago. Ramsay's show is...