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I don't know if you remember Marco Pierre White. There was a time when the English-speaking world looked on with bemusement as the French venerated their chefs and treated them like movie stars. Paul Bocuse was a household name. Joel Robuchon was on TV every week. Brits and Americans (and therefore, Australians and the rest of us who subscribe to global media) shared this bemusement.
It wasn't that we were unused to the sight of people cooking on TV. There were cookery shows hosted by the likes of Julia Child, Fanny Craddock, Graham Kerr, Delia Smith and even Madhur Jaffrey. But these people were not chefs. They were, in essence, cookbook and recipe-book writers who were trying to do on TV what they had done so successfully in print.
And then, sometime in the late 1980s, Marco came along. The important thing to recall is that he wasn't a TV chef. Nor did he cook in some well-known restaurant. Instead, he made a name for himself cooking French food in a London suburb at a restaurant that nobody had ever heard of called Harveys.
But he was such a brilliant chef that journalists flocked to interview him. And the stories piled up. He was born on a council estate, we were told. He had not grown up eating this kind of food. Actually, he had never ever been to France. But because the food was so good, even the Frenchies at the Michelin Guide had no choice but to give him three stars.
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THE YOUNG PROTÉGÉ: Gordon Ramsay trained with Marco Pierre White at the latter's London eatery Harveys, before Ramsay left after getting tired of "the rages and the bullying and violence" |
PIONEER: Marco Pierre White is widely regarded as the first celebrity chef |
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