SPECIAL PROMOTION SIX DESTINATIONS ONE CHEF “This stuff deserves to sit on the best tables of the world.” – GORDON RAMSAY; CHEF, STUDENT AND EXPLORER SPECIAL PROMOTION THIS MAGAZINE WAS PRODUCED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL IN PROMOTION OF THE SERIES GORDON RAMSAY: CONTENTS UNCHARTED PREMIERES SUNDAY JULY 21 10/9c FEATURE EMBARK EXPLORE WHERE IN 10THE WORLD is Gordon Ramsay cooking tonight? 18 UNCHARTED TRAVEL BITES We’ve collected travel stories and recipes LAOS inspired by Gordon’s (L to R) Yuta, Gordon culinary journey so that and Mr. Ten take you can embark on a spin on Mr. Ten’s your own. Bon appetit! souped-up ride. TRAVEL SERIES GORDON RAMSAY: ALASKA Discover 10 Secrets of UNCHARTED Glacial ice harvester Machu Picchu In his new series, Michelle Costello Gordon Ramsay mixes a Manhattan 10 Reasons to travels to six global with Gordon using ice Visit New Zealand destinations to learn they’ve just harvested from the locals. In from Tracy Arm Fjord 4THE PATH TO Go Inside the Labyrin- New Zealand, Peru, in Alaska. UNCHARTED thine Medina of Fez Morocco, Laos, Hawaii A rare look at Gordon and Alaska, he explores Ramsay as you’ve never Road Trip: Maui the culture, traditions seen him before. and cuisine the way See the Rich Spiritual and only he can — with PHOTOS LEFT TO RIGHT: ERNESTO BENAVIDES, Cultural Traditions of Laos some heart-pumping JON KROLL, MARK JOHNSON, adventure on the side. MARK EDWARD HARRIS Discover the DESIGN BY: Best of Anchorage MARY DUNNINGTON 2 GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED SPECIAL PROMOTION 3 BY JILL K. ROBINSON THE PATH TO UNCHARTED 4 GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED SPECIAL EDITION 2019 5 “I’m always willing to learn; I want to expand on my repertoire.” PREVIOUS Gordon gathers local IT’S A WARM, SUNNY DAY on New Zealand’s ingredients for uncomfortable, because he can’t constantly modernizing these traditional foods with fine- Stewart Island/Rakiura — the kind of day that his Big Cook check the food, adjusting as necessary. But he’s dining training. “This stuff deserves to sit on in Peru. lures people to ditch work, pack a picnic and hit NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ here to get down and dirty, and even embrace the best tables of the world,” says Ramsay. “I the beach. Hikers wearing shorts crest the grassy ERNESTO BENAVIDES these uncomfortable moments. think over the next 15 to 20 years, you’ll see a hill on the coastline and follow their guide, like ABOVE “I suppose the more successful I’ve become, new breed of chefs at the forefront like Monique, ducklings, to the secluded, sandy cove where Gordon on the more I want to strip back,” says Ramsay. “I’m establishing the powerful tastes of one of the the calm ocean sparkles and beckons them to the beaches always willing to learn; I want to expand on my smallest countries in the world.” shed their boots and feel the soft sand and cool of New Zealand. repertoire. I still need to feel that vulnerability To get to this day of digging a hangi pit, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ saltwater on their feet. CAMILLA RUTHERFORD and touch base with that insecurity of what I Ramsay has spent a week in New Zealand Shovel in hand, on the hillside above this don’t know.” And right now, broadening his hopping between Stewart Island and the Wanaka holiday scene, chef Gordon Ramsay is digging horizons doesn’t involve a luxurious day off at region of the country’s South Island, in search of a hangi pit. The traditional Maori method of the beach. an education while gathering ingredients from cooking food with heated rocks in an earth oven He’s here in New Zealand to highlight the New Zealand’s four main ecosystems: ocean, requires him to prepare it all and walk away once influence of Maori tradition and indigenous food river, mountains and forest. While the average his food is buried within, trusting heat and time on a recent revolution in the country’s cuisine Kiwi resident might visit the local market for to do the work. It’s a demand that makes Ramsay and on local chefs, like Monique Fiso, who are most of the ingredients that come from the land 6 GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED SPECIAL PROMOTION 7 from the local community and Ramsay values RIGHT their judgment of local food. New Zealand chef In Morocco, Ramsay works with chef Najat Monique Fiso and Gordon prepare Kaanache, who’s changing the face of her a meal with local country’s cuisine at her restaurant, Nur. In ingredients in a Hawaii, it’s chef Sheldon Simeon, who takes a traditional Maori hangi pit. modern spin on classic Hawaiian dishes at his JON KROLL two restaurants: Lineage and Tin Roof. Laos’ chef Joy Ngeuamboupha focuses on celebrating the country’s culinary heritage at one of the top-rated restaurants in the country, Tamarind Restaurant and Cooking School. “I want the series to reinstate the importance of keeping it local and in season, and drawing out some of the best-kept secrets that these chefs and local source experts have kept up their sleeves,” says Ramsay. “We’ve gone to six places and gotten something incredibly special from each and every one of them. It makes the experience a little deeper than checklist travel.” and sea, Ramsay is going to the source, even his accelerated lessons, he puts himself to the the television audience in the U.S. is used to when it requires climbing a tree for fuchsia test by cooking a feast for local experts, who seeing; far from the fiery temper and expletive- berries, free diving for Pāua, wading in a stream determine if his education and interpretation peppered commentary. Ramsay’s focus on going to catch an eel with his bare hands, tasting grubs of their food culture is sufficient. deeper and beyond with food casts him in the from a rotten tree trunk or hunting wild goats. This may be the first time the U.S. television student role in the Uncharted series. “This His new National Geographic series, Gordon audience has seen Ramsay outside the kitchen, is about putting food back on the map with Ramsay: Uncharted, draws connections but it’s hardly his first show about food and National Geographic, where it deserves to be,” between exploration, adventure and food as adventure. His series, “Gordon’s Great Escape,” he says. “It’s the planet Earth of food that gives Ramsay travels to six destinations: New Zealand, aired on the British Channel 4 in 2010 and inspiration for your next trip.” Peru, Morocco, Laos, Hawaii and Alaska. 2011, and took a deep dive into the culinary While Ramsay is the central figure the Rising-star chefs in each location (Monique traditions of India, Thailand, Cambodia, audience follows through the series to get a ABOVE Fiso, Virgilio Martinez, Najat Kaanache, Joy Malaysia and Vietnam. His 2011 special, closer look at six different cultures around the Local fishermen Fluff (L) and Zane (R) Ngeuamboupha, Lionel Uddipa, Sheldon “Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait,” investigated the world, his assignment comes from the local chef, teach Gordon (center) Simeon) unlock secrets to the region’s cuisine history, culture and controversy surrounding who also chooses the people who will ultimately how to cook pāua on a and send Gordon on an adventure to learn and the shark fishing industry. determine whether Ramsay succeeded in getting beach in New Zealand. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ discover for himself. When he returns after It’s different than the Ramsay persona that a sense of the cuisine. All of these people are CAMILLA RUTHERFORD 8 GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED SPECIAL PROMOTION 9 PERU NEW ZEALAND MOROCCO HAWAII: LAOS: ALASKA: Urubama Stewart Island Fez MAUI’S 4,000 ISLANDS SOUTHEASTERN Patabamba Wanaka Atlas Mountains HANA COAST REGION PANHANDLE Lake Huaypo Matukituki River/Valley Taza Hana Khone Falls Hoonah Tastayoc Doure El Aansar Haiku Liphi Falls Tracy Arm Fjord EMBARK Maranura Kaupo Hatxaykhoun Village Juneau Nakasong The production team Soon Na Vieng Village traveled more than 83,000 miles to scout and shoot the first season of GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED. RASS LMA FALLS OUTSIDE TAZA Gordon rappels to meet mushroom hunters in Morocco during his quest to find hidden culinary secrets. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ MARK JOHNSON ALASKA TRACY ARM FJORD KHONE FALLS Gordon and Michelle Gordon and chef Costello harvest Joy Ngeuamboupha glacial ice. walk along the banks NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ of Khone Falls after MARK EDWARD HARRIS cast net fishing. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ JOCK MONTGOMERY MOROCCO HAWAIIAN LAKE HUAYPO ISLANDS LAOS Gordon uses a low- cost, lightweight boat made of inner tubes and bottles to fish for Peruvian silverside on Lake Huaypo. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ ERNESTO BENAVIDES PERU HANA Gordon prepares to go spearfishing with world-class free MATUKITUKI RIVER diver Kimi Werner. Gordon and eel NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ fisherman Jeromy MICHAEL MULLER proudly hold their latest catch. NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ CAMILLA RUTHERFORD 10 GORDON RAMSAY: UNCHARTED SPECIAL PROMOTION 11 LEFT In Morocco, locals guide Gordon to hearts of palm A former growing in the Middle Atlas Mountains. They stand nearby while he attempts footballer, to cut them. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ MARK JOHNSON Ramsay is also BELOW Gordon makes his way to a remote village down the no stranger Mekong River, a vital source of food in Laos. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/ to marathons, JOCK MONTGOMERY triathlons and even greater adventures around the world. For him, the adventure is part of what’s necessary to get close to the source and understand the culture — even when he’s kayaking through rapids in Laos to get to a remote village, rappelling alongside a waterfall in Morocco to meet up with some secretive local mushroom hunters, dangling on the edge of a cliff in Peru to harvest a plant for insect larvae, spearfishing in Maui or climbing With his respect for local cultures and a 60-foot Alaskan rock pillar to make tea from cuisines, in Uncharted, Ramsay had to put old man’s beard.