Food Quotes by Marco Pierre White

My favourite dessert is tarte Tatin.

— Marco Pierre White

When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious.

— Marco Pierre White

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

— Marco Pierre White

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

— Marco Pierre White

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

— Marco Pierre White

Cooking is a philosophy; it's not a recipe.

— Marco Pierre White

In 1990 at Harveys, when I was 28 years old, I became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars. It was…

— Marco Pierre White

A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.

— Marco Pierre White

For me, food is about generosity, and this should reflect on the plate as well.

— Marco Pierre White

If I did one thing, I made cooking rock n' roll: I made it sexy. I made young kids from rich backgrounds…

— Marco Pierre White

I think it's really important for every young person to work in a kitchen because you learn a life skill.

— Marco Pierre White

Whether dealing with children or chefs, they are all giant babies in need of nurturing.

— Marco Pierre White

Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.

— Marco Pierre White

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

— Marco Pierre White

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the…

— Marco Pierre White

Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of…

— Marco Pierre White

All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second,…

— Marco Pierre White

Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a…

— Marco Pierre White

“Lots of famous chefs today don’t look whacked, because they don’t work. They have a healthy glow and a clear complexion. There…

— Marco Pierre White

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this…

— Marco Pierre White

The food wasn't very good in the first kitchen I ever worked in. But it was very busy, so I learnt to…

— Marco Pierre White

You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when…

— Marco Pierre White

My cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: 'I don't usually eat your kind of food,…

— Marco Pierre White

Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be…

— Marco Pierre White

Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes.…

— Marco Pierre White

I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and…

— Marco Pierre White

“Apply the cook’s brain and visualize that fried egg on the plate. Do you want it to be burned around the edges?…

— Marco Pierre White

Nine out of 10 English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes.

— Marco Pierre White

My grandfather, father, and uncle were chefs, and my other uncle was a butcher.

— Marco Pierre White

I like a nice cross section of society in my restaurants - the stars, the toffs, the working guy.

— Marco Pierre White

A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can…

— Marco Pierre White

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time,…

— Marco Pierre White

You can't be a chef and appear on television all the time. It's impossible. At least when I earned my stars, I…

— Marco Pierre White

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other…

— Marco Pierre White

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

— Marco Pierre White

My favourite dinner is a cup of tea and a ham sandwich with English mustard.

— Marco Pierre White

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

— Marco Pierre White

People are bored of these 12-course gastronomic menus. They want affordable glamour.

— Marco Pierre White

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

— Marco Pierre White

“Escoffier, whose philosophy was “Good food is the basis of true happiness.”

— Marco Pierre White