Letters to the Editor
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Please don’t compare Ramsay to Oliver. And he's not British. He's a Scott.
Real life top chefs are usually not warm cuddly people, especially in the kitchen. The stress of maintaining, one star, not to mention three stars, is the stuff of tirades at the least and suicides in the worst case scenario. People unacquainted to the realities of high octane professional kitchens merely see Ramsay as a blowhard rather than one of many hot tempered kitchen gurus.
Fox doesn't even really have to try to incite conflict because professional kitchens are a breeding ground for discord by their very nature.
Jamie Oliver is gifted in his own right, but he doesn't have the breadth of knowledge, skills or accolades that Gordon Ramsay earned all on his own. Someone saw early on how marketable Jamie Oliver could be while at that age Ramsay was still putting in hard times with the famously furious Marco Pierre White.