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
Celia Jiménez (chef) Celia Jiménez (chef) Celia Jiménez (born 19 February 1976) is a Spanish chef, who when she was head chef at El Lago restaurant became the first female chef in Spain to win a Michelin star. Celia Jiménez trained at La Cónsula de Málaga, a successful cooking school which went on to produce several Michelin star winning chefs. She said at the time, the expectation on menus was that it would feature staple fine dining dishes such as foie gras, cavier and scallops. While she found that when training there was a better split of male and female chefs, she later