Marco Pierre White, a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality, was born on December 11, 1961.
In the UK restaurant industry, he is known as “the first celebrity chef” and “the enfant terrible.”
White, who was 33 at the time, was the first British chef to receive three Michelin stars in January 1995.
Mario Batali, Heston Blumenthal, Shannon Bennett, Gordon Ramsay, and Curtis Stone are just a few of the prominent chefs he has coached.
The third of four boys born to Maria-Rosa Gallina, an Italian immigrant from Veneto, and chef Frank White, Marco Pierre White was born in Leeds on December 11, 1961. When Marco was six years old, his mother passed away from difficulties related to the birth of Marco’s younger brother.
He had suffered a brain hemorrhage. He graduated from Leeds’ Allerton High School.
White originally received his training at the Hotel St. George in Harrogate before continuing at the Box Tree in Ilkley.
He moved to London in 1981 and started his traditional training as a commis at Le Gavroche under Albert and Michel Roux with “£7.36, a box of books, and a bag of clothes.
White founded Harveys in Wandsworth Common, London, in 1987, earning his first Michelin star there.
Marco Pierre White net worth explored
Marco Pierre White who has a net worth of $40 million.