Gordon: Cooking for Vlad is most off-Putin
Badboy chef reveals tyrant left him a quivering wreck
TV chef Gordon Ramsay has revealed Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin was the scariest person he has cooked for.
Ramsay said he was terrified he might give the Russian president food poisoning.
The 55-year-old chef cooked for Putin and then Prime Minister Tony Blair at a lunch in Downing Street in 2000.
Ramsay, famed for his tough demeanour and foul-mouthed outbursts, admitted the experience reduced him to a quivering wreck.
He said: “I was thinking, ‘Could you imagine if you food poisoned these two? Could you imagine the kind of s**t I would get if I took these two down?’.
“It was an extraordinary experience. I was standing in between them to say hello and they were asking me about the English asparagus and I’m thinking, ‘Get me the f*** out of here, I’m done.’”
Speaking on the Kelly Clarkson show in the US, Ramsay said he was surprised by the lack of space and kitchen utensils at Downing Street.
He said: “After I had finished with them I had to go upstairs and cook for the two first ladies in this tiny little flat.
“You had to take your own pots and pans. In Downing Street you would expect a proper kitchen but we were loading in pots and pans.”
The Russian leader was served tomato consomme with caviare from albino sturgeon, mosaic of chicken and ham knuckle, roasted slice of sea bass on crushed new potatoes with white asparagus in a red wine sauce and treacle tart.
Ramsay donated his fee for the lunch to charity.
The chef, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, said the most famous person he had cooked for was Princess Diana who came to his restaurant in Chelsea when he was just 27.