Marco Pierre White before the accident. Photograph: Sarah Lee
You know the old hate-fuelled gag, I wouldn't p**s on you if you were on fire?
Well here's a little story from the other side of the Atlantic for any done-bad chef who ever happened to find themselves with a full bladder in the same room as Marco Pierre White.
Apparently yesterday at the Spotted Pig gastro pub in New York, while trying to demonstrate a flaming sambucca to chef-pals Mario Batali and Tony Bourdain, Pierre White set fire to himself and then stabbed himself in the hand.
It sounds like a terrible waste of perfectly good booze to me.
