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Devil in the kitchen
by Marco Pierre White
ISBN-10: 0752881612
ISBN-13: 9780752881614
ISBN-13: 9780752881614
Region: British
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Publication Date: August, 2007
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About Devil in the kitchen
Publisher Web Link: http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/
When Marco Pierre White’s mother died when he was just six years old, it transformed his life. Soon, his father was urging him to earn his own keep and by sixteen he was working in his first restaurant. White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country, such as Albert Roux, Raymond Blanc and Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen, developed his own style, and then struck out on his own.
At Harveys in Wandsworth, which he opened in 1987, he developed a reputation as a stunning cook and a rock ‘n’ roll sex god of the kitchen. But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant, and his temper was legendary, as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him. He eventually opened several more restaurants, won every honour going and then realised that it still wasn’t enough. Here Marco takes the reader right into the heat of the kitchen with a sharp-edged wit and a sizzling pace that will fascinate anyone brave enough to open the pages of this book and enter his domain.
The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre White
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About Marco Pierre White
Author Web Link: http://www.marcopierrewhite.org/
After leaving Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications, White decided to train as a chef.
He began his training in the kitchen at the Hotel St George in Harrogate, North Yorkshire and later at the Box Tree in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Arriving in London as a 16-year-old with “£7.36, a box of books and a bag of clothes” he began his classical training as a commis under Albert Roux and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche, a period that would lead Albert to describe him as “my little bunny”.
At 24, Marco became Head Chef and joint owner of Harveys with a kitchen staff that included the young Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal.
He was awarded his third Michelin star at the age of 33 - the first British and youngest chef ever to achieve this.
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