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Glob posted...

Im not sure Id agree with your argument that other chefs will feel compelled to emulate his angry persona either. If seeing somebody act like a dick makes you want to act like a dick, you were probably always a dick.

I think there's an entire cult of personality around guys like Ramsay and Marco Pierre White where being a head chef is like being a rockstar or an army colonel or maybe both, and some people in the industry talk like this behaviour is normal and just "how it is in the kitchen".

https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/loz5no/kenji_lopez_on_ramsay_and_kitchen_abuse/

Boiling point was a documentary in 1999 about how he made his restaurant get 3 stars.