[5] One of the photographs featured White with a dead baby shark, which was laid across his lap in Clarke's garden for the shot.

[8] One of Clarke's images of White was included in a set of ten donated to the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2013.

[10] Sue Gaisford, reviewing the book for The Independent, described it as a "Marco Pierre White fanzine-with-recipes" and an "ego-trip".

[11] In 2005 food critic Jay Rayner called White Heat "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years".

[17] White's first appearance on the television show Hell's Kitchen in 2007 caused the price of second-hand copies of his old cookbooks to spike.