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Also by Jacques Pepin:

Heart & Soul in the Kitchen, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Essential Pepin, October 2011
Hardcover
Jacques P?pin More Fast Food My Way, August 2008
Hardcover
Chez Jacques, April 2007
Hardcover

CHEZ JACQUES
By: Jacques Pepin

Traditions and Rituals of a Cook

Stewart, Tabori and Chang
April 2007
On Sale: April 1, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 1584795719
EAN: 9781584795711
Hardcover
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Of the 20-plus cookbooks Jacques Pépin has written, Chez Jacques is his most personal and engaging. Now starring in his tenth PBS series, Pépin ranks among America’s most beloved cooking teachers, and this book shows us why.

The book’s 100 recipes—for soups and appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and desserts—are Pépin’s own favorites among the thousands he has created over a lifetime of cooking. Using readily available ingredients and relying upon familiar techniques, these are the dishes he makes when preparing food at his Connecticut home. But Chez Jacques is more than a collection of well-liked recipes; it’s also a captivating sentimental journey. Each dish is introduced by a recollection—of picking dandelion greens for a spring salad, of buying fresh eggs from the local farmer—that invites readers to share in the traditions and rituals of Pépin’s most intimate circle.

This treasury of great food, lore, and memory is exquisitely illustrated with a sampling of Pépin’s paintings, as well as hundreds of color photographs of the finished dishes and of Pépin in all his “natural habitats”—pitching boules with a group of friends, savoring a glass of chilled rosé in the afternoon sun, painting landscapes, designing menus, and, of course, working in his kitchen.

Media Buzz

Good Morning America - December 20, 2007
Today - May 10, 2007