Chef marco pierre white

On the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking cookbook White Heat, Observer Food Monthly looks back on the early career of the groundbreaking chef

"Perfection is lots of small things done well": Marco Pierre White

"This book gave us power. It all started here."

CALM, poised and restrained are three words no one has ever used to describe Marco Pierre White.

Marco Pierre White

MICHELIN stars, A-list restaurants and ITV’s Hell’s Kitchen made and cemented Marco Pierre White as a world famous chef. And with a return to TV alongside his one-time protege-turned-rival Gordon Ramsay in the works, the 59-year-old’s irresistible stock is set to rise again. However, the man formerly nicknamed the enfant terrible of British cooking insists […]

When chef Marco Pierre White, famously recognized as the original celebrity chef, released his cookbook and memoir White Heat twenty five years ago, he became a cultural icon. The photographs in the book, shot by the late Bob Carlos Clarke, helped to solidify the young man’s status as a the decade’s ultimate enfant terrible, featuring rowdy kitchen shenanigans and shirtless studio portraits in lieu of the chef’s most famous dishes.