Chef’s Behaving Badly

There’s no profession more in the spotlight than a chef, and as you can imagine, intense pressure may cause people to do some pretty wacky things. 

Marco Pierre White is one of the original kitchen bad boys, particularly known for his ‘experimental’ discipline with his kitchen staff.

“One day a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time. ‘That should provide a bit of ventilation,’ I told him, and when he asked if he could change out of his chopped-up clothes I said, ‘Yes, at the end of the service.”

“At the end of the day, it’s just food, isn’t it? Just food.”

Image: Bob Carlos Clarke.