Marco Pierre White
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11 December 1961 Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK |
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Alex McArthur (m. 1988–90) (divorced) Lisa Butcher (m. 1992, divorced) Mati Conejero (m. 2000–present) (separated) |
| Website | londonsteakhousecompany |
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| Cooking style | French, British and Italian cuisine |
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Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality from Leeds. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene. He was called the godfather of modern cooking by Australian MasterChef (Season 4, Episode 53). White was, at the time, the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars, and still holds that title to this day. He has trained such chefs as Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Curtis Stone and Shannon Bennett.
White was the third of four boys born to English chef Frank White and Maria-Rosa Gallina, an Italian emigrant. White left Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications and decided to train as a chef, initially at Hotel St. George in Harrogate and then at the Box Tree in Ilkley. Aged 16, he went to London with "£7.36, a box of books and a bag of clothes", and began his classical training as a commis with Albert and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche.
He continued his training under Pierre Koffman at La Tante Claire, moving to work in the kitchen of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir, and later with Nico Ladenis of Chez Nico at Ninety Park Lane. He then branched out on his own, working in the kitchen at the Six Bells public house in the Kings Road with assistant Mario Batali.
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