Gordon Behind Bars, Channel 4, Tuesdays
9pm.
Four part documentary.
When it comes to celebrity chefs,
Gordon Ramsey (Gordon Ram Jam) is up there with the best of them.
His TV shows, Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmare's, as well as his
foul mouthed ranting, propelled his career in the United States.
Gordon Behind Bars seen him back in the UK, at London's Brixton
prison with the hope of getting a working kitchen up and running
within six months in order to teach inmates catering skills to help
them seek employment after completing their sentences.
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22 male prisoners, with a history of
crimes ranging from burglary to violent assault, were under Gordon's
watch and not many of them had any basic cooking skills. After a
task of baking simple fairy cakes the prisoners had the job of
preparing five different meals for their 800 fellow inmates. Despite bickering with each other and thieving from the
kitchen, the guys managed to pull the task off with praise from their
inmates (who are called customers by the prison kitchen staff).
However, Gordon will have to eliminate 10 of them as he only wants 12
prisoners in the kitchen by the six month deadline.
I totally loved this first episode and
will be tuning in again next week. An insight to the prison community
is shown and its nice to see Ram Jam's vulnerable side. He can't
flip on these guys the way how he does the contestants in Hell's
Kitchen, as he risks blowing the scheme, as well as his life. It'll
be interesting to see how he manages to keep his cool over the next
three shows as he has some pretty testing male attitudes to deal
with.
Donna Woolcock 2012
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