Hells Kitchen - The Hells Kitchen cookbook: recipes from the kitchen

IN 2005, A HOT NEW TELEVISION SERIES HIT U.S. AIRWAVES AND QUICKLY BECAME A TOP-RANKED SHOW. BASED IN LOS ANGELES AND HOSTED BY CHEF GORDON RAMSAY, HELLS KITCHEN IS THE PLACE WHERE ASPIRING CHEFS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY COME TO SET FIRE TO THEIR PASSIONS AND PROVE THEMSELVES AS AMERICAS NEXT GREAT CHEF.

EACH SEASON, A DOZEN OR SO DRIVEN, HUNGRY HELLS KITCHEN HOPEFULS ARE SELECTED OUT OF THOUSANDS OF APPLICANTS TO PUT THEIR KITCHEN SKILLS TO THE ULTIMATE TEST. THEY COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND EVERY POINT ON THE CULINARY SPECTRUM, FROM THE PRISON CHEF TO THE WAFFLE-HOUSE COOK, LINE COOK, AND ALL THE WAY UP TO EXECUTIVE CHEF. IN TEMPERAMENT THEY RANGE FROM THE WILDLY AMBITIOUS AND CRAZILY COMBATIVE TO SURE AND STEADY AND COOL AND COLLECTED. WHETHER THEYRE FROM THE WEST COAST OR FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY, WHAT BRINGS THEM TO HELLS KITCHEN IS VISION AND A BURNING DESIRE FOR SUCCESS. THESE HOPEFULS HOLD ONE THING IN COMMON: THEY THINK THEY HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN. AND IF THEY DONT MEASURE UP, THERES HELL TO PAY.

Over the past decade, some of this countrys most determined and passionately committed chefs have come through Hells Kitchen. The competition extracts the best from the contestantsif they can stand the heat. Its culinary school on steroids, a dueling ground for those with heart, determination, and an obsession with perfection. As the season progresses, the anxiety and excitement builds with hell-raising meltdowns and tempers running wild. The stakes are high, with the winner taking home the opportunity of a lifetime: a head chef position at one of the most acclaimed restaurants in the United States, which comes with a salary of a quarter of a million dollars.

Hells Kitchen is a phenomenally successful cooking show. But its more than a show; the set consists of two state-of-the-art kitchens and a restaurant seating one hundred hungry and demanding guests. Though it can come off as a spectator sport, its the real deal for a diverse bunch of seriously dedicated cooks looking to reach the top of their game and win a prize that can change lives forever.

This hard-hitting, sweat-it-out-in-the-kitchen, real-life competition adds up to a show with staying power, one that has been going strong for more than a decade. And each and every season is better than the last!

Do you have what it takes to become a culinary great? Youll be separated from your friends and family for weeks on end. Youll be bunked with a group of the fiercest competitors youll ever know. Youll work long, hard hours, be subjected to punishments from KP duty to cleaning toilets, suffer rejection and humiliationface tough love to the max, and be pushed to the absolute extreme to reach perfection. If you can handle that, then