Jacques Pepin's Profile
Brief about Jacques Pepin: By info that we know Jacques Pepin was born at 1935-12-18. And also Jacques Pepin is French Chef.
Some Jacques Pepin's quotes. Goto "Jacques Pepin's quotation" section for more.This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.
Tags: Food, Past, TravelWhen I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.
Tags: After, End, WarWhen I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.
Tags: Beautiful, Food, WineWhen I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
Tags: Simple, Special, WineWhen I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
Tags: Book, Food, PastYou can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.
Tags: Food, Home, MotherYou know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.
Tags: Age, Life, TimeMy palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Tags: Away, Start, YoungOne of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.
Tags: Problems, Put, YoungYou have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.
Tags: Choice, Learn, YourselfAll the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
Tags: Chefs, Great, KellerI tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
Tags: Great, Learn, TellJust because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.
Tags: Mean, Question, TimeAfter 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
Tags: After, Marriage, WifeIf you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.
Tags: Beat, Bread, HardWhen you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
Tags: Big, Deal, HomeBasically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.
Tags: Done, Time, WifeRelated topics
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- Claude Pepper
- William Pepper
- Samuel Pepys
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