The Devil in the Kitchen: The Autobiography

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At the far end of the lake the path begins to ascend towards the Devil’s Kitchen, which you will see straight ahead of you. White has a reputation for having a frenetic, perfectionist attitude, yet very little of either comes across in his own book.

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Finally, you hit flatter ground again to make your way around Llyn Idwal to complete your circular walk. I highly recommend reading “The devil in the kitchen” as it will give you an honest insight, with moments of quirkiness and humor, on the making of one of the most talented chefs of the 20 th century. One of the classic Scottish pipe tunes, and I love to hear it played by proficient pipers or fiddlers.

Famous folks like Michael Caine and Prince Charles were admirers of White's smart, decadent interpretations of classic French dishes. I didn't feel like I learned anything about or from White aside from the fact that he holds himself in very high regard. In The Devil in the Kitchen , he tells the story of his life in food, spanning his apprenticeship with Albert and Michel Roux, his wild years in the bacchanal of 1980s Chelsea, his ferocious pursuit of the highest Michelin rating, and his "retirement career" as a hugely successful restaurateur.

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As it’s a biopic, which happens over the course of 50 years or so, several actors will get the chance at playing Britain gastronomy’s original enfant terrible, with Michael Fassbender’s name also routinely linked to the project. And it seems every awful behavior is justified… it was ok to manage through fear, didn’t I produce some other great chef’s?It is said that the Devil beckons weary travellers into his kitchen, and they are never seen again, and that birds do not fly above Llyn Idwal because of the death of the Welsh Prince. You kind of get a “this happened, that happened” mode of story telling, no drama (and it seems there had to be plenty of drama).

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Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia (Norton, 2006).If an ultimately too-short MPW-sanitized MPW on MPW appeals, this is a terrific read (and I'd give high recommendations to do so to anybody in the biz).

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He may have been one of the most disagreeable bastards ever to command a kitchen brigade, but in the same guileless, unfiltered way in which he cursed out sous-chefs, he's told one hell of a story. How often the word "friend" appears when name-dropping, yet in the end seems a concept perhaps utterly foreign to him. It chronicles the distress of a boy who lost his mother at age 6, who feared the loss of his father from terminal cancer four years later, who was estranged from his father in late adolescence and who floundered through two unsuccessful marriages and nearly a dozen irretrievably damaged relationships in pursuit of his dream. Marco Pierre White is perhaps the most decorated chef in the history of being a chef (certainly the top British chef), the way he got there is by being ridonkulously single-minded in his approach, to the point where he doesn't bother talking to his own relatives for decades at a time. An influential figure in English cooking in the 1980s and '90s, White built an empire of London restaurants that included Harveys (where he became the youngest chef—at age 28—to win two Michelin stars), Mirabelle and the Oak Room.We are also available as a three piece band with Jimmy Ellis (Manchester) or Dave Munnelly (Ireland) as guest.