White Heat 25: 25th anniversary edition

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a b Fisher, Lorraine (5 April 2000). "Marco: I Didn't go on Binge". The Daily Mirror. Mirror Group. p.15. a b Rayner, Jay (10 July 2005). "The Man with the Dough". Observer Food Monthly. Guardian Newspapers Limited.

a b Rose, Hilary (6 May 2005). "Marco Pierre White Breaks the Mould". The Times. News International Trading Limited. p.5. John Lanchester, for The Observer magazine supplement Life in 2003, described the book as "gastroporn". [10] Sue Gaisford, reviewing the book for The Independent, described it as a "Marco Pierre White fanzine-with-recipes" and an "ego-trip". [11] In 2005 food critic Jay Rayner called White Heat "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years". [1] Legacy [ edit ]There are some extraordinary passages in George Orwell's memoir, Down and Out in Paris and London, detailing his experiences working in restaurant kitchens. I read it in the nineties, when I was myself working as a line cook and trying to learn to be a chef. The passages are extraordinary to me because they were written in the twenties and they describe an industry that had hardly changed in the decades that had intervened when I read it. The heat, the noise, the stress, the hostility between cooks and servers - I felt like I was reading a description of the kitchens where I'd worked. Orwell was a dishwasher and he describes one of his fellow plongeurs at length, a man who liked to describe himself as a "debrouillard," which word the dictionary defines as "resourceful" or "adaptable," but which Orwell says conveyed, at least as his comrade used it, a quality of toughness almost military in its disciplined unflappability. A debrouillard, as this fellow conceived it, could stand fast against any assault that circumstances could mount. Of course, Orwell goes on to point out, a little cruelly, that the plongeur needed this hypermasculine metaphor about his work because he was, in Orwell's scornful phrase, "a glorified charwoman."

This immensely influential cookbook is regarded by many chefs and foodies as one of the greatest cookbooks of all time White Heat is credited with changing the image of chefs to sex symbols. [5] The photographs showed White in and out of the workplace, including smoking in the kitchen and working with his team, [6] including a young Gordon Ramsay. [5] One of the photographs featured White with a dead baby shark, which was laid across his lap in Clarke's garden for the shot. Clarke's wife, Lindsay, later said in an interview that Marco went on to gut the shark there and then in the garden, "The stench was unbelievable. I was pregnant at the time and the odour haunted me." [7] Another photograph featured White nude with a side of piglet in his lap. [8] One of Clarke's images of White was included in a set of ten donated to the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2013. [9] Reception [ edit ] The images have the frenetic energy of a war zone, so it's no surprise that the photographer took inspiration from the Vietnam War. All the shots taken inside the kitchen of Harvey's are gritty but tasteful. Not sure what to say about the famous chef posing shirtless holding a massive fish and lying on a tombstone, though... What a nut,and I mean that in the best way.Some of England's best chefs like Gordon Ramsay trained under him.Great opinions,recipes and pics.He dropped out of cooking years ago,but there's always a rumour of a return. D'Souza, Christa (26 July 1992). "The Cook, his Fiancee, the Tantrums". The Times. News International Trading Limited.

Quote of the century when he turned in his Michelin stars(he was the youngest chef to ever get a star,much less three) "I don't need people who know less about food than me judging me"

rounded down. The recipes aren’t bad, but they are difficult, and perhaps not worth the investment for the results. I was intrigued by the concept of blowtorching pears though.

Initially published in 1990, White Heat was part autobiography of chef Marco Pierre White and part cookbook, [2] which portrays White's "bad boy" chef image. [3] White was introduced by actress Lowri-Ann Richards to her friend Bob Carlos Clarke. Clarke photographed White for a Levi jeans advert and went on to create the images for White Heat. [ citation needed] Speaking following Clarke's death in 2006, Marco Pierre White said, "He was like my prop. Without Bob there would never have been White Heat." [4]