kitchen nightmares

Have you seen the British television show “Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares“? It’s a pretty good premise for a show. Ramsey, a chef, goes into a failing restaurant, spends a week there, kicks ass, and tries to turn it around. It’s really compelling stuff. There’s been some speculation that parts are staged, but, having worked in a few kitchens myself, I think it’s probably 90% legitimate. (I didn’t buy the part where he ran out of the room to vomit up what he claimed to be a rancid scallop. The rest of it, I think, was probably pretty accurate though.)