The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

What do Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay have in common? Answer: They survived tours of duty in the kitchen of Marco Pierre White. In the UK Whites brilliant cooking and high-wattage antics have made him a legend: the first British chef (and the youngest chef anywhere) to win three Michelin stars a chain-smoking pot-throwing multiply married culinary genius whose fierce devotion to food and restaurants has been the only constant in a life of tabloid-ready turmoil. 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. With cameos from the likes of Michael Caine Madonna and Damien Hirst The Devil in the Kitchen leaves no dish unserved relating the backroom antics the blood feuds and the passion for great food that have driven Londons greatest restaurants for decades.