Search results for ""Author Marco Pierre White""

Book SynopsisThis book is all about creating beautiful and delicious food...without stress and without fuss. Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes and shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredients.The book has sections for starters, shellfish, fish, meat, poultry, desserts, and Marco uses bottles, jars and packets to make divine sauces, syrups and dressings. Olive oil, honey, mustard, soy sauce, vinegar, Hellmann''s, Heinz and Knorr - they are all on the lists of ingredients here. And the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are: Simple, Fast and Fun. ''It''ll take longer to wash the dishes,'' he says, ''than it will to make them.''Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea and Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; and beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice. Desserts, too, require little skill. Jamaican Mess, made with bananas, shop-bought custard and CarnatioTrade ReviewLike the title says, these are easy, stripped-down recipes...Tasty * Heat *All Marco's food looks terrifically posh, though he has stuck to the simple part of the deal - you'd have to try hard to get one of these recipes wrong. -- Carolyn Mays * TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE *Making fine dining available to everyone is his latest passion and in his new book, MARCO MADE EASY, he has passed on his expertise with the simplest of dishes that take next to no time to prepare. * FOOD (TESCO) *Most of the recipes here require only one or two fresh ingredients, and all can be prepared in moments. The book is aimed at helping us mere mortals achieve restaurant-quality food in the simplest way....Definitely worth a gander. * GLASGOW HERALD MAGAZINE *Marco Pierre White's latest recipe collection is exactly what the title suggests: a beautiful, simple culinary crib sheet, where the emphasis is on celebrating the ingredients of dishes that do not require lots of fiddly, techincal kitchen time to produce. * WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY *

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisOnce in a blue moon a book is published that changes irrevocably the face of things. White Heat is one such book. Since it was originally produced in 1990, it has gone on to become one of the most enduring classic cookbooks of our time. With its unique blend of outspoken opinion, recipes and dramatic photographs by the late legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, White Heat captures the magic and spirit of Marco Pierre White in the heat of his kitchen. This 25th anniversary edition features brand new material, including photographs from the late Bob Carlos Clarke and contributions from James Steen, Lindsey Carlos Clarke and a host of high-profile chefs: Jason Atherton, Sat Bains, Mario Batali, Raymond Blanc, Anthony Bourdain, Adam Byatt, David Chang, Phil Howard, Tom Kerridge, Paul Kitching, Pierre Koffmann, Gordon Ramsay and Jock Zonfrillo.Trade ReviewMarco Pierre White was the original rock-star chef - the guy who all of us wanted to be... He made history. -- Anthony BourdainUnquestionably, this is the most influential cookbook of all time. -- Tom KerridgeWhite Heat was the book that made boys want to become great chefs. -- Pierre KoffmannWhite Heat made kitchen work as sexy as being a lead singer and Marco wore it like Mick Jagger. -- Mario Batali

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre WhiteWhen 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 and 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 and Pierre Koffmann. He survived the intense pressure of hundred-hour weeks in the heat of the kitchen, developed his own style, and then struck out on his own.At Harveys in Wandsworth, which he opened in 1987, he developed a reputation as a stunning cook and a rock ''n'' roll sex god of the kitchen. But he was also a man who might throw you out of his restaurant, and his temper was legendary, as younger chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal would find out when they worked for him. He eventually opened several more restaurants, won every honour going and then realiTrade ReviewThis book should serve as a primer to young men on the make * GUARDIAN *

Read more less

Book Synopsis‘This book is a stunningly beautiful and passionate evocation of Nell’s final season – do not skip a word of it – it’s a work of art and an ace cookbook as well!' Emma Bridgewater CBEWinner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2021 Giffords Circus has been touring the south of England every summer since 2000. It is a traditional village circus with a uniquely British flavour, blended with extraordinary acts from all over the world. Their restaurant Circus Sauce is headed by chef Ols Halas and seats circus goers in a beautifully decorated tent on site. It offers a new menu every week and uses seasonal and local produce from the surrounding area. Recipes include Spring Chicken with Mushrooms and Asparagus, West Country Cassoulet and Spiced Panna Cotta with Baked Apples, and even Tweedy's Banoffee Pie with Salted Caramel, resulting in some guests returning several times in the summer to experience a new menu within familiar surroundings. This extraordinary cookbook is a celebration of the food that brings the circus and its audience together, alongside the story of the circus itself and its vibrant community – it's a celebration of the colour, personalities and images of the circus and its slow journey through the English summer countryside.

Read more less