> Why did you pick Stratford-upon-Avon? *Is he from that area - or are
> you?

Wikipedia told me he was from (or at least "grew up") the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay

I would generally push any chef to prepare local food and if that
could be done where said chef spent his/her "formative years," all the
better. (Also, GR often pushes for local ingredients when he is trying
to fix broken restaurants, so I would attempt to bounce that back to
him.)

I am from Los Gatos (San Jose), California, but, after bouncing around
the world a bit, landed in London, UK.