Matt Sigel is not the first guy to make potty-mouth chef Gordon Ramsay lose his cool on the Fox reality show Hell's Kitchen.
He is the first guy in the show's four seasons to make Ramsay lose his lunch.
Sigel is a sous chef at the Radisson Warwick in Center City.
Sigel did it on last night's fourth-season premiere when the contestants were directed to make signature dishes. Sigel, who lives in Pine Hill, N.J., whipped up a tartare of venison and scallop, topped with caviar and finished with white chocolate. Couple of bites, and Ramsay was wretching over a trash can like a frat boy.
“Can’t win it all,” says Sigel, who said he’d serve it again. “I’ve made that for plenty of people.” He said he learned it at Caesars Atlantic City from Keith Mitchell.
Ramsay, he notes, doesn’t like sweet and savory combinations. But Sigel knows he is on to something. "I can guarantee you that a ton of chefs will start playing with sweet food now," he says.
Sigel, a native New Yorker who left soon after he was injured on Sept. 11, 2001, is a bit of a mystery man. Until last year, when he was working for Flik at Merck in West Point, he was Matt Bloch. When he married Ellen Sigel, he changed his name to hers.
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Here's his wedding coverage in The Inquirer on April 15, 2007.