Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
marco pierre white
“A coward is somebody who dies a thousand deaths because they haven’t got the courage to express what they think…”
Fair enough, I’ll come right out and say it then. You’re an idiot, Marco. Read the rest of this article here.
NOT A GOOD DAY AT THE OFFICE
Bumped into a fellow freelancer on the street today. She mentioned reading my Marco Pierre White interview. Talked about a couple of tough assignments she’d taken on herself. Assumed White was the toughest interviewee I’d ever come up against. Not by a long shot darling, not by a long shot. The most torturous interview situation I’ve ever faced was this one. It was an ordeal for all concerned. Read the rest of this entry »
“IT’S 7.30AM. I’VE JUST FINISHED DEER STALKING…”
MARCO PIERRE WHITE: the original bad boy chef – kitchen colossus or glorified dinner lady?
Beyond sustaining us, and (hopefully) not poisoning us, why does food matter?
I believe that the heart of every house is the kitchen. We all grow up at the kitchen table, with our family and with our friends. And I think that’s where the importance of food is born. Read the rest of this entry »
“IT’S 7.30AM. I’VE JUST FINISHED DEER STALKING…”
As promised a while back, here’s the transcript of my “explosive” interview with celebrity chef, rhetorical question fetishist and all-round pompous arsehole Marco Pierre White, published in the Irish Times yesterday. Since I filed copy, he’s been dumped from his reality show in the US. To be honest, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow… Read this article here.
COMPLIMENTS FROM THE CHEF
Just completed a long, stormy interview with Marco Pierre White – the “original bad boy chef”™ – for the Irish Times. The interview was conducted in his new restaurant on Dawson Street and, at one point, I really thought he was going to tell me to get the fuck out. (This man once stormed out of a Radio Times interview, for Christ’s sake.)
White is a combative character, but I thought I gave as good as I got. I asked him, for example, why chefs were allowed more latitude to be pricks than hairdressers or landscape gardiners? Anyway, when the interview was over, he stood up, shook my hand and (I have this on tape by the way!) said…. Read the rest of this entry »