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The Devil in the Kitchen
The Autobiography
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The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre White
Updated for the paperback and published to coincide with Marco Pierre White on "Hell's Kitchen". Marco Pierre White has had the most colourful and extreme career of any top chef, all vividly told in this remarkable account of his life. Revealing stories of those he has worked with, including Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal, Raymond Blanc, Albert Roux and Nico Ladenis. Like Kitchen Confidential, it gives a superb insight into the business of running a top restaurant, and the high octane lifestyle. 'Marco Pierre White is the man who put rock 'n' roll into cooking. He made it sexy. He made it cool to cook. He had that rock star lifestyle and didn't give a flying f*** what anyone thought of him. We all wanted to be like him' Heston Blumenthal. 'A tale of violence, genius and sex among the pans' Scotsman. 'The terror of the kitchen serves up an autobiography as dramatically confected as a dish in any Michelin-starred restaurant' Times. 'Utterly unputdownable' Glamour.
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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.
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 The Devil in the Kitchen and enter his domain.
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The Devil in the Kitchen, co-authored by James Steen and Marco Pierre White, is acclaimed as an inspirational guide for ambitious young men. Its narrative, peppered with candid anecdotes, highlights the fiery passion, relentless drive, and transformative journey of the renowned chef, receiving praise particularly for its motivational aspects.
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ISBN: 9780752881614
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 August 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Illustration: 22
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 235g
Pages: 336
About the Author
Marco Pierre White was born in Leeds and learnt his trade at the Box Tree in Ilkley, Le Gavroche, Tante Claire and Le Manoir. He opened his first restaurant, Harveys, in 1987, and was the first British chef to win three Michelin stars at Hyde Park Hotel. At 38, he retired from the kitchen and began to build a career as a hugely successful businessman.
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