The F Word (TV series)

The F Word
Genre	Food magazine/Cooking show
Starring	Gordon Ramsay Giles Coren (Series 1–2) Janet Street Porter (Series 2–5)
Opening theme	"The F Word" by Babybird
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	51 (Series 1–5)
Production
Running time	44 minutes
Release
Original network	Channel 4
Original release	27 October 2005 – 7 January 2010
External links
Website

The F Word (also called Gordon Ramsay's F Word) is a British food magazine and cookery programme featuring Chef Gordon Ramsay. The programme covers a wide range of topics, from recipes to food preparation and celebrity food fads. The programme is made by Optomen Television and aired weekly on Channel 4. The theme tune for the series is "The F-Word" from the Babybird album Bugged.

Each episode is based around Ramsay preparing a three-course meal at the F Word restaurant for 50 guests. Diners in the restaurant include celebrities, who participate in conversations, challenges, and cook-offs with Ramsay. Other segments focus on food-related topics, such as alternative foods, healthy eating and even Ramsay himself demonstrating recipes of the courses to the home viewers. Finally, there is a series-long feature on home-reared or poultry that is ultimately served to F Word diners on the series finale.

The first series was based around the "Get Women Back in the Kitchen" campaign where Ramsay visited several English households to help women who wanted to improve their culinary skills.The Times' restaurant critic Giles Coren and food writer Rachel Cooke acted as field correspondents who presented reports on unique food fads and healthy eating respectively. Two or three commis (picked from a thousand applicants) squared off in each episode to earn a position at one of Ramsay's restaurants. Ramsay raised turkeys in his garden, so that his children gained a better understanding of where their food came from. Chef and television presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall regularly offered tips on raising free range turkeys. The turkeys were named after other celebrity chefs, for example, Ainsley, Antony and Nigella. The pudding (dessert) challenge regularly pitted Ramsay with a celebrity guest, with the winner having the honour of serving his or her pudding to the guests at the F-Word restaurant.

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