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The BEST Cooking Videos on YouTube
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if you ask me the best cooking videos on
YouTube are surprisingly these
infomercials for infamously high sodium
dehydrated broth products featuring an
over-the-hill British celebrity chef who
can barely be bothered to try anymore
believe it or not I think there's some
great things you can learn about cooking
and about life by watching Marco Pierre
White half-heartedly smear a steak with
a smushed up bouillon cube while
generally making an art of being over it
being over it is basically my favorite
trait in other people and it's one of my
favorite feelings on the occasion that
I'm able to experience it before I
proceed I want to acknowledge that there
is a lot of reason to believe that Marco
White is or at least sometimes can be a
terrible person and we'll get to that if
you're in the United States there's a
good chance you don't even know who
Marco Pierre White is this is basically
the one place in the english-speaking
world where Marco Pierre White has not
been a major pop culture figure for
going on 30 years he just never seemed
to break through here the way his
one-time protégé Gordon Ramsay did
but a lot of people traced the birth of
today's global celebrity chef movement
to Marco Pierre White he is arguably
patient zero for a phenomenon that I do
believe is a plague upon us but that's a
topic for another day prior to Marco
cooking was rarely viewed as a high
status profession working in the kitchen
was basically like working in the
laundry this is something Anthony
Bourdain talked and wrote about a lot in
his two short life Bourdain is on record
is saying that everything changed for
both him and for his trade when these
iconic photos by Bob Carlos Clarke hit
the world in 1990 in particular this one
there is Jim Morrison and an apron a
wire thin Jackrabbit of relentless
obstinate culinary perfectionism the
dyslexic child of an alcoholic
working-class widower he was beaten down
by the English schooling system that
most of us know only from Pink Floyd
songs you have to wonder if it was that
ship on White's shoulder that drove him
to demand respect as a young chef to say
to the aristocratic twits in his dining
room I am good enough to walk among you
you will not treat me as an untouchable
to be neither seen nor heard whilst I
service you our gluttony I am an artist
and you are merely passing through my
gallery as he clawed his way up the
English social ladder that was
infamously light on rungs he seemed to
drag his entire lowly profession up with
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