Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited"; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. An American adaptation of
Émile Bernard (chef) Émile Bernard (chef) Emile Bernard (5 April 1826 – 31 August 1897) was a French chef best known as the author of a series of recipe books, "La Cuisine Classique", which became classics of French cuisine. Bernard was the son of Laurent Bernard, a butcher, and grandson of Pierre Bernard, a restaurant owner. His mother’s family traded faience. He trained as a chef by working in the kitchen of Vivian Jacquinot’s restaurant in Lons-le-Saunier. He then moved to Turin to work in the kitchen of his uncle, before serving as a kitchen aid in a renowned hotel in Genoa, where