Who is Marco Pierre White from Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in T and what is their importance?

Marco Pierre White began his cooking career by touring some of the most successful restaurants in Europe and learning how those chefs worked. White then worked in the kitchen of a pub, cooking French foods that no pub had ever served before. Batali was White's assistant at the pub and learned to dislike White's reduced sauces. White was a tough boss, often having temper tantrums when Batali did not do the work at White thought he should. White also taught Batali how not to behave in the kitchen. Later Bill Buford would visit White and learn that he was dyslexic, causing him to be more visual than most people. This was a gift that helped him prepare dishes in an artistic manner that was unique to him.