Marcus Wareing, chef

Desert Island Discs

BBC

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4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Wareing is a prize-winning chef, restaurateur, TV presenter and cookery book writer, who gained his first Michelin star at the age of just 26. He grew up in Southport, and by the age of 11 was helping out in his family’s fruit and vegetable business, which dominated his father’s life. Marcus assumed he would join the business, but his father told him to take a catering course instead, as the family firm had no future. When Marcus was 18, he moved to London to work at the Savoy. He loved the experience of life in a high-pressure professional kitchen and was quickly promoted. In 1993 he joined Gordon Ramsay at Aubergine, creating one of the most celebrated London restaurants of the time. He went on to launch a number of Michelin star-winning restaurants, often working with Gordon Ramsay and his company, before a much-publicized falling-out. Marcus now runs a group of restaurants in London, founded with his wife Jane, and since 2014 he has appeared as a judge and mentor on the TV series MasterChef: The Professionals. BOOK CHOICE: A Bear Grylls Survival Guide LUXURY ITEM: A knife CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: How Deep is Your Love by The Bee Gees Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Sarah Taylor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast.
0:08.4	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take
0:13.1	with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.4	And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:21.0	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Music
0:44.0	This week my cast away is Marcus Wearing, one of the most respected and acclaimed chefs and
0:48.4	rasteratures in Britain.
0:50.0	His contribution to British food and the next generation of cookery talent has earned
0:54.1	him multiple awards, a string of best-selling cookbooks and two Michelin stars, as well
0:58.9	as a judging role on TV's MasterChef, the professionals.
1:02.8	He's been cooking for 30 years but the seeds of his career were so even earlier, when,
1:07.3	as the son of a fruit and vegetable merchant in Southport, he accompanied his father on
1:11.5	work trips around the northwest.
1:13.9	His talent singled him out early, by his late teens he was already working in some of London's
1:18.0	most prestigious kitchens and his notorious work ethic saw to the rest.
1:22.6	By 26, he had clocked up more 18 hour days than most people see in a lifetime and earned
1:27.5	his first Michelin star.
1:29.1	In 2008, the doors opened on the first restaurant with his name above the door, two more gastro
1:34.5	domes of his own wood follow.
1:36.6	He says, right from the beginning, you could say I was incredibly selfish, I never wanted
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