Marco Pierre White

The Insider: 'Honestly, who do they think I am? Jonathan Ross?'

'All this to leer like a dirty old man at dozens of women half my age.' MONDAY, November 3 I’m in Dubai, making a documentary for ITV, and spent this morning with Dr Sulaiman Al Fahim, the flamboyant entrepreneur behind the Abu...

Delia Smith attacks celebrity chefs for supermarket adverts

Delia Smith, the TV chef and author, has attacked celebrity chefs for putting their names to supermarket advertising campaigns. Delia, 67, criticised their decision to endorse particular stores or food ranges, saying that this...

Review: Wild Sorrel, 21 Old Fishmarket Close, 0131-226 5959

Published Date: 14 November 2008 JAMES Stocks is a fortunate young man. Head chef at Balbirnie House in Fife, he appeared to have the world at his feet with fantastic reviews, a handful of awards and the promise of television...

Knopfler whips radio bidders into frenzy

Nov 12 2008 by Sam Wonfor, The Journal IT was a case of a lot of money for something yesterday when a guitar masterclass with Mark Knopfler went for a whopping £100,000. The bid for a lesson with the Dire Straits frontman (who...

Mais Où Est Montrachet?

When Drew Nieporent opened Montrachet on these premises in 1985, he turned New Yorkers’ idea of a fancy French restaurant on its head. The setting was a stark industrial space, with tin ceilings and overhanging pipes, in a...

Stocks and sauces focus: A helping hand

Making sauces from scratch with only fresh products is the ambition for many pubs but the reality is that time pressures, skill levels and staff costs do not always allow for this. Claire Sullivan, marketing director of...

Table Talk: Marco Pierre White

Gastronomy's original wildchild Marco Pierre White describes his perfect lunch of oysters and Guinness, growing up with corned beef and salad cream, and serving spinal chord of veal Marco Pierre White. If I'm really honest my...

James Lawton: Past greats unfairly knocked over in rush to hype Calzaghe's achievement

McGuigan's picture is at odds with reality. Yet, from the perspective of ringside at Madison Square Garden in the early hours of Sunday morning, it was still dismaying to hear that McGuigan, back in the TV studio, had given Joe...

How long until there's a Blue Peter badge for promiscuity?

The world may have changed this week, but in certain corners of Britain we will be forever cavemen. According to a study by Sheffield University, teenage boys think it quite acceptable to pressure girls into having sex with...

Miller’s opens third site

Miller’s Collection, the operator of top-end gastropubs, has opened its third site, the Queen’s Arms at East Garston, Berkshire. The company’s pubs are all freehold — it is headed by two former Hotel du Vin chefs, Lucy Townsend...

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