{"product_id":"gordon-ramsays-playing-with-fire","title":"Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bestselling follow-up to Humble Pie, now in paperback. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, Gordon Ramsay never imagined he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here's how.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the beginning there was nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot a sausage - penniless, broke, fucking nothing - and although, at a certain age, that didn't matter hugely, there came a time when hand-me-downs, cast-offs and football boots of odd sizes all pointed to a problem that seemed to have afflicted me, my mum, my sisters, Ronnie and the whole lot of us. It was as though we had been dealt the 'all-time dysfunctional' poker hand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI wish I could say that, from this point on, the penny dropped and I decided to do something about it, but it wasn't like that. It would take years before the lessons of life, business and money began to click into place - before, as they say, I had a pot to piss in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the story of how those lessons were learned.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is Gordon Ramsay at his raw, rugged best. PLAYING WITH FIRE is the amazing story of Gordon's journey from sous-chef to superstar. In his no-holds-barred style, Gordon shares his passion for risk and adventure and his hard-won success secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ 000130001","offer_id":48113221304471,"sku":"9780007259885-GD-000130001","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/9002\/8951\/files\/15518753482190.jpg?v=1786260660","url":"https:\/\/thriftreads.co.nz\/products\/gordon-ramsays-playing-with-fire","provider":"Thrift Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}