Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality from Leeds. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the "enfant terrible" of the UK restaurant scene. He was called the godfather of modern cooking by Australian "MasterChef" (Season 4, Episode 53). White was the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars. He has trained notable chefs such as Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Curtis Stone and Shannon Bennett. White was the third of four boys born to English chef Frank White and Maria-Rosa Gallina, an Italian emigrant
Magnus Lindgren (chef) Magnus Lindgren (chef) Carl Magnus Lindgren (April 4, 1982 – November 19, 2012) was a Swedish chef. Lindgren was a senior chef at celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal’s flagship restaurant The Fat Duck, the Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray, Berkshire. Lindgren died in November 2012 in a car accident in Hong Kong. He and British chef Jorge Arango Herrera were killed when the taxi they were riding in was crushed between two double-decker buses in Shau Kei Wan, a district in eastern Hong Kong island. Lindgren and Herrera, along with 53-year-old taxi driver Wong Kim-chung, were trapped in the cab for more