Gordon Ramsay: The Bad Boy Chef From Hells Kitchen Teaches

Gordon Ramsay: The Bad Boy Chef From Hells Kitchen Teaches Good Business

It took a while for Chef Gordon Ramsay to come to my attention. With limited television viewing time available due to a hectic work schedule, I tend to watch a select group of cable channel programs that have patiently been waiting in my digital recorder. When summer comes and my first run favorites are unavailable, I get adventurous and occasionally go slumming amongst the broadcast channels. In the midst of that trash heap, I found the Chef from Hell.

I dont know what made me watch, but there was something about a guy with a foreign accent yelling at a bunch of strange looking people in chef uniforms that appealed to me. It reminded me of visiting the carnivals during my younger days. I felt the same allure to Hells Kitchen that I did to the Bonnie and Clyde Death Car exhibit or the Reefer Madness film theater in the exhibits section of the carnival.

Watching Hells Kitchen for the first time bothered me. I dislike reality television shows. My wife and I share an office in our home with a television set that is on most of the time. In the interest of marital bliss, I occasionally...