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Cheesman, Chris (2 November 2006). "Pierre White Show Pays Tribute to Carlos Clarke". Amateur Photographer . Retrieved 10 February 2012. Its an inspiration for young guys and girls who are serious about cooking. Amazing book to read and especially about a great chef how worked hard and reached to a great level and retiring from the kitchen and giving up his Michael stars who would do that. Salute to Chef Marco Pierre White.

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. MPW is a flawed man and clearly difficult to live with or be around. However, one cannot doubt his skill or dedication to his craft, and White Heat conveys this with stark clarity. Lanchester, John (3 October 1993). "Dear Marco The Restaurant". The Observer Life. Guardian Newspapers Limited. D'Souza, Christa (26 July 1992). "The Cook, his Fiancee, the Tantrums". The Times. News International Trading Limited.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.

Marco Pierre White is obsessive, intense and a genius in the kitchen. This book tries to illustrate that through its unusual layout, edgy photographs and carefully selected quotations. In fact, and rather unusually, the recipes are the lesser part of the book.Some of the recipes and the way they're assembled feel quite dated 30 years after this book's original publication, and it's interesting that there's not a single vegetarian dish (except for the desserts). 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."

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