The Deceptively Simple Soup Gordon Ramsay Once Cooked For Anthony Bourdain

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The Deceptively Simple Soup Gordon Ramsay Once Cooked For Anthony Bourdain By Alba Caraceni Oct. 18, 2025 7:00 pm EST

Before Gordon Ramsay shot to international fame with his TV show "Hell's Kitchen" in the mid-2000s, he was a celebrated British chef with a namesake London restaurant. Anthony Bourdain visited Gordon Ramsay Restaurant in 2002 for his first food travel TV series, "A Cook's Tour," launched by Food Network that year as Bourdain's own career had begun taking off. He raved in the episode about the food he ate that was cooked by Ramsay, including consommé, a classic French soup that's deceptively simple.

Bourdain's meal began with a ham hock terrine and the chilled consommé with caviar. Consommé is a seemingly simple, clear soup that actually requir