Gordon Ramsay's social media project culminates in pandemic cookbook

'There's so much fun to be had in cooking food that doesn't need to take 60 or 70 minutes at a time,' says Ramsay. Photo: AP

How did Gordon Ramsay spend his pandemic lockdown? Getting frenetic in a kitchen, of course.

The chef with a dizzying number of books, restaurants and TV shows was home in Cornwall, England, with mouths to feed last year when he did a series of lives on Instagram cooking meals in 10 minutes or less. The fast-moving endeavour he began on YouTube the year before culminated in Ramsay In 10, his latest cookbook filled with recipes made against the clock.