Jocky Petrie (chef) Jocky Petrie (chef) James "Jocky” Petrie is a professional Scottish chef born in Duror in Scotland. He is best known for both his work alongside chef Heston Blumenthal as Head of Development of the Experimental Kitchen at The Fat Duck (one of five restaurants in Great Britain to have three Michelin stars), and his current work as Group Executive Development Chef for Gordon Ramsay. As a chef he has regularly appeared as mentor and judge on a number of television shows including Masterchef, Heston's Fantastical Food, In Search of Perfection and Top Chef Suomi. Petrie is the sous chef to
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares 30 January 2009 as part of 'The Great British Food Fight', a two-week series of food-related programming. In the program, Ramsay campaigned for viewers to start supporting local restaurants, especially in a bad economy. In June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the "Evening Standard", which had alleged that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant had been faked for the first episode of "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares". These allegations followed reports from the previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs. Ramsay said at the time: "I won't let people write anything they