At Home with Marco Pierre White 2011 - (Page 62)

When will I be Being a good chef doesn’t automatically make you a celebrity – for that you need to be a little bit special… FAMOUS? MARCO PIERRE WHITE Having left school at 16 with no qualifications, it was determination and fierce ambition – not to mention phenomenal talent – that saw Marco hone his craft. He was an apprentice under the watch of the best mentors in the business – Albert Roux and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche, and later Pierre Koffman and Raymond Blanc. Marco, 49, opened his own London restaurant, Harvey’s, at the age of 26, and won his first Michelin star almost immediately. In record time, he achieved his ambition of gaining three Michelin stars – but in typically rebellious fashion, Marco gave the stars back when he decided to stop being a chef in 1999. Marco’s chequered love life – he’s been divorced three times and dated many glamorous women in between (and allegedly during) – meant he was never far from the headlines during the 80s and 90s. His habit of throwing customers out of his restaurants if he didn’t like their comments or requests also kept Marco in the tabloid news. The press also relished his public fallouts with famous people, including his protégé Gordon Ramsay, who Marco never forgave for bringing a camera crew to his third wedding without asking permission. Finally, Marco had had enough of it all. ‘I’d lost all sense of direction in my life,’ he says. ‘I was 38 and I’d just had enough. I thought that by winning those three Michelin stars, I’d be happy. I thought I’d be accepted. But NIGELLA MADE COOKING SERIOUSLY SEXY AND BECAME KNOWN AS THE ‘QUEEN OF FOOD PORN’ Marco’s habit of throwing customers out of his restaurants kept him in the tabloid news I was almost in a worse position.’ Marco took a step back from the spotlight in the early 2000s, deciding to concentrate on being a restaurateur instead. But he burst back into the public eye in 2007 when he took over Hell’s Kitchen from Gordon Ramsay, and then fronted Marco’s Kitchen Burnout. Marco has also starred in several advertising campaigns for the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), Knorr stock cubes and Bernard Matthews Farms. And, of course, he’s been the face of at home magazine a few times too! CAUSING A STIR At the age of 33, Marco became the youngest British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars. 062| OCTOBER 2011 WORDS: GEORGINA MARIC | PHOTOGRAPHS: PA PHOTOS

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of At Home with Marco Pierre White 2011

EDITOR’S LETTER
HELLO FROM MARCO
NOTEBOOK
DIARY DATES
SEASONAL FARE
MUG SHOT
WIDGET WATCH
SUNDAY LUNCH
MODERN DAY MARCO
MASTERCLASS
IN THE KNOW
COMFORT FOOD
GO GLOBAL
THE FAME GAME
A GLASS AND A HALF
ECO EATING
FANCY A PINT?
BOOZY BITES
TICK-TOCK TUCKER
CUISINE BY COMPASS
LAY THE TABLE
THROW THE PERFECT PARTY
MARCO’S MENU
PRAWN POWER
CHOCS AWAY
COCKTAIL O’CLOCK
BOTTOMS UP
BOOK THE BEST TABLE IN TOWN
THE GREAT WHITE GALLERY
WILD WITH MARCO
FOOD FADS
COMING SOON
RECIPE ROUND-UP

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