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Marco Pierre White
British
Chef
Born:
Dec 11
,
1961
Life
Me
People
Think
World
You
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Buy locally where possible, but if you can't get the very best locally, don't buy locally. Buy it from where it is best.
Marco Pierre White
Buy
Best
You
Locally
Possible
Very
Get
Where
Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a restaurant, you've got to feed people, not make pretty little pictures on plates to make up for your lack of ability.
Marco Pierre White
You
People
Run
Restaurant
Ability
Pretty
Feed
Wrong
Pictures
Concept
Make
Make Up
Got
Cuisine
Up
Get
Lack
Just
Which
Little
Mean
Your
English
Plates
I'm the Christopher Biggins of reality TV.
Marco Pierre White
Reality
Christopher
TV
Reality TV
The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.
Marco Pierre White
People
Pressure
TV
Force
Odd
Things
You cannot criticize a man for going to work. You really cannot.
Marco Pierre White
Work
You
Man
Criticize
Going
Cannot
Really
My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.
Marco Pierre White
Heart
Conservative
Mind
Always
Might
Socialist
When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious.
Marco Pierre White
You
Nothing
More
Delicious
Perfectly
Roast
Chicken
Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.
Marco Pierre White
Cooking
Recipe
Philosophy
A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.
Marco Pierre White
Mother
Out
One Thing
Born
Chef
Chefs
His
Childhood
Common
Cook
Who
Palate
Thing
I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.
Marco Pierre White
Life
Work
You
Important
Young
Every
Think
Kitchen
Learn
Because
Person
Young Person
Really
Skill
Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of parsley at the end, little bit of olive oil. It's about making the food deliciously tasty.
Marco Pierre White
Food
Water
Complicated
Simple
Down
Bit
About
Cube
Making
End
Stock
Tasty
Oil
Little
Little Bit
Should
Even
Olive
Olive Oil
Gravy
One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.
Marco Pierre White
Time
Day
Too
Other
Took
One Day
Carving
Both
Trousers
He
Hot
Knife
Chef
Still
Were
His
Hand
Jacket
Then
Held
Body
Garments
Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.
Marco Pierre White
You
Yourself
Right Reasons
Once
Insecurities
Rather
Wrong
Accept
Understand
Than
Being
Your
Reasons
Right
Things
People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.
Marco Pierre White
Time
People
Think
Kitchen
Week
Lifestyle
Hours
Rock
Rock And Roll
Still
Led
Roll
You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I was always behind my stove.
Marco Pierre White
Time
You
Impossible
Stove
Stars
Earned
Television
Chef
Always
Least
Behind
Appear
I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to talk about the burden of grief, and because I was severely underdeveloped when it came to sharing my emotions, I mustn't have been the most communicative husband.
Marco Pierre White
Death
Grief
Emotions
World
Mother
Burden
Men
Husband
About
Had
Sharing
Since
Most
Talk
Because
Came
Been
Encouraged
Dominated
Which
Communicative
Hard
Working-Class
Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.
Marco Pierre White
Good
People
Good People
Eye
Failings
Always
Close
Forgiving
A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.
Marco Pierre White
Book
Recipes
Cast
Inspiration
Stone
Should
Cookery
Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.
Marco Pierre White
Culture
Greed
Backdrop
Opened
Thatcher
Against
'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.
Marco Pierre White
Success
Big
Year
Greed
Breakfast
Top
Hunger
Wimps
About
Opened
Became
Line
Michael
Big Movie
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Movie
Wanted
Anyone
Which
Mantra
Douglas
Who
Film
Street
I love working. I love doing things. I don't like sitting.
Marco Pierre White
Love
Like
Doing
Sitting
Working
Things
Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.
Marco Pierre White
You
Age
Mother
Lost
Ended
Childhood
Six
Then
Imagine
Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.
Marco Pierre White
You
Made
Restaurants
Table
Feel
Democratic
Waiter
Privileged
Getting
Being
Should
I don't need Michelin, and they don't need me.
Marco Pierre White
Me
Need
The reason I do television is because we all have to work and earn a living, as I have four children. It's also a platform for me to share my knowledge and inspire the young.
Marco Pierre White
Work
Me
Knowledge
Inspire
Young
Living
Earn
Television
Share
Also
Because
Children
Reason
Platform
Four
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