Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A Story of 1930s France - The Girl At The Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks.

Gordon Ramsay was born in Scotland, but his folks moved to Stratford-upon-Avon in Britain when he was 5 years of age. Nonetheless a rather serious injury stopped his athletic hopes in his uniform polo shirt, so he came back to university and took a course in hotel management. His early coaching in the kitchen was spent working with such luminaries as Albert Roux and Marco Pierre White in London. In the following 2 years he opened 6 more trattorias and received 4 more Michelin stars. The subsequent year Gordon debuted in The F Word, a unsteady food programme with cooking, celebrity guests, topical VTs and food campaigns. The Girl At The Lion DOr, a novel by Sebastian Faulks, presents a love story which is both engaging and piquant. as the account advances, we learn that her story is rather more complicated than the common, but still sad one, of family members snuffed out in action. In Annes case there had been also skeletons in the closet. That some place else is Janvilliers, a provincial city, where she's reluctantly accepted as a waitress in the little hotel of the books title. Anne is an attractive girl, maybe more arresting even than that, and it's not long before some of the bistros customers are watching her charms. One such customer is a middle class businessperson called Hartmann. There develops a liaison that forms the stories first plot. Theres the owner of the hotel, as an example, who appears loath to leave his flat. Sebastain Faulkss novel isn't an impressive read. This same year Gordon opened his eighth cafe in Britain , maze, in Grosvenor Square, and Gordon Ramsay at the Conrad in Tokyo.

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