This Famous Chef Wants to Be Cremated in His Own Pizza Oven

Chef Marco Pierre White believes customers would buy his ashes to bake bread after he dies.
The British chef is getting ready to open Mr. White’s Steaks, Pizza and Gin, a new pizzeria and steakhouse in London.

Would you eat pizza that’s baked with the ashes of a dead man? No? What if the ashes once belonged to renowned Chef Marco Pierre White?

Still no?

Well, White, who is very much alive at the moment, thinks some foodies would love to use his ashes as a secret ingredient.

Often dubbed the enfant terrible of the UK’s restaurant scene, White was the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars and trained other celebrity chefs like Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay. He likes to spout off and was known for ejecting customers at Harveys, the French eatery he co-owned in London, if they took offense at his comments. He even made Ramsay cry when the latter worked for him at Harveys. “I don’t recall what he’d done wrong, but I yelled at him, and he lost it,” White told The Independent back in 2006. “Gordon crouched down in the corner of the kitchen, buried his head in his hands and started sobbing.”

In a recent interview with The Sun about his new London restaurant, Mr. White’s Steaks, Pizza and Gin, White had more outrageous things to say.

“I want a nice cremation,” he told The Sun. “People could buy my ashes by the gram and bake it into bread. I think lots of people would buy my ashes. Once you’re gone, you’re gone, so why not?”