
The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy
- Marco Pierre White When Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old it transformed his life Soon his father was urging him to earn his own keep & by sixteen he was working in his first restaurant White went on to learn from some of the best chefs in the country such as Albert Roux Raymond Blanc & Pierre Koffmann He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen developed his own style & then struck out on his own At Harveys in Wandsworth which he opened in 1987 he developed a reputation as a stunning cook & a rock 'n' roll sex god of the kitchen But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant & his temper was legendary as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay & Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him He eventually opened several more restaurants won every honour going & then realised that it still wasn't enough Here Marco takes the reader right into the heat of the kitchen with a sharp-edged wit & a sizzling pace that will fascinate anyone brave enough to open the pages of this book & enter his domain