Marcus Wareing: Michelin Starred Chef and Restaurateur
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Marcus Wareing
Marcus is one of the most respected and acclaimed chefs working in Britain today. His contribution to British food and his passion for nurturing the next generation of cookery talent has earned him both respect and accolades.
His career began at the age of 18 and he now has a restaurant empire to his name, 2 Michelin stars, seven cookbooks and a successful television career with his role of judge on Masterchef the Professionals.
When asked to describe his style of cooking, Marcus has said, it’s…'not British cuisine, not French cuisine – it’s Marcus cuisine.'
Thank you to Penguin Random House for sponsoring this episode and I'm excited to get stuck in to Green by Elly Pear. The link to which is just below:
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island |
| 0:11.1 | dishes. |
| 0:12.4 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best |
| 0:16.9 | dish they've ever eaten, and of course the last dish they would choose to eat before |
| 0:22.1 | being cast off to the desert island. I hope you're all well in that you've had a lovely week. |
| 0:27.5 | If you haven't yet left a five-star rating, now is your moment and your good deed for the week |
| 0:32.8 | could be recommending Desert Island dishes to your friends and colleagues. I love bringing it to you every |
| 0:38.4 | week and your reviews really do make the world of difference. In other exciting news, this episode |
| 0:44.7 | of Desert Island Dishes is brought to you in partnership with Penguin Random House and one of |
| 0:49.3 | their latest cookbooks, Green by Ellie Pear, full of no-fast vegetarian and vegan recipes, from traybakes |
| 0:56.8 | to one-pot dishes, lots of recipes you can make in less than 20 minutes, but then also |
| 1:02.1 | sumptuous brunches and things you can make when you've got friends coming over. Basically, |
| 1:07.5 | all bases covered, all delicious. And also the kind of recipes where you don't even really notice that they're vegetarian |
| 1:14.8 | and vegan, they just look and taste great. |
| 1:18.6 | So Green is definitely a cookbook to add to the shopping list. |
| 1:22.4 | Thank you very much to Penguin Random House. |
| 1:24.8 | That's all from me. |
| 1:26.3 | Now, here is today's episode. |
| 1:30.3 | My guest today is Marcus Wearing. Marcus is one of the most respected and acclaimed chefs |
| 1:35.6 | working in Britain today. His contribution to British food and his passion for nurturing the |
| 1:40.5 | next generation of cookery talent has earned him both respect and accolades. |
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