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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay goes behind the camera for a new series, Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars, It shines the limelight at restaurants working to reach the coveted culinary recognition. The multi-star restaurateur and TV personality is an executive producer of the eight-part Apple TV+ series, which premieres on Friday visiting eateries in the US, UK, Italy, Nordics and Mexico seeking to win or maintain, stars.
“(IT) is a kind of a real reflection on what’s going on in these companies: what’s at stake, what kind of danger is ready to get hold of and saw the emotions,” Ramsay told Reuters. “This is an inscribed, real version of life in the culinary world and the scope you go to Badge of Honor. Actor.
Episodes show the host Jesse Burgess, who meets chefs as they compose menus, primp up -up and seek to impress the lone dining room that may be a secret Michelin inspector. There is also input from the anonymous Michelin inspectors, expressed by actors. “We ask them questions and they answer. In fact, it was all very secret, so none of the producers or none actually saw the real life inspectors,” Burgess said. “They just judge the food on the plate.”
The first Michelin guide was released by the French tire company in 1900, with Restaurant Star Rating introduced in the 1920s. The annual guides award up to three stars.
Ramsay received his first Michelin star when he was chef at London Restaurant Aubergine. His own Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Has held three stars since 2001.
“You become a sensation overnight, and then you have the fight and the snail to maintain the one, you need to understand the word delegation, teach, create and most importantly, pass the baton,” he said. “I have a foot in the kitchen and a foot in the media world, and am I there 16 hours a day? No, of course I am not. I’m there as a conductor and I want to sign things, but I want to hear from them. And then maintain it where the right work starts.”
When asked if he still gets nervous when Michelin issues new editions of the guide, Ramsay said, “I get nervous, no one likes to lose, (go) down to even two stars is unique, but it’s big headlines if you do. I am often asked, ‘What would you do if you lost a star?’ Then I would fight and win it back.
