Jacques Pepin is an expert on classic methods of food preparation and techniques, having hosted 12 television series and written 26 cookbooks, he has earned his pace in the pantheon of the all-time greatest chefs and cooks.; The material for Complete Techniques is based on Pepin's 1978 and 1979 archetypal works La Methode and La Technique. This revised and updated edition will include colour photographs and new and updated techniques, all culled from Pepin's archive and hand-selected by Chef himself.
Jacques Pepin has published twenty-six cookbooks and hosted twelve public television cooking series. One of the best-known culinary teachers in the world, he's earned a place in the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame, captured the foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America award, been recognized for Best TV Cooking Segment and Best Culinary Video, and earned the foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.Chef Jacques won a daytime Emmy award for a television show he co-hosted with Julia Child and is among an elite group that has received the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de L'Ordre du Agricole, two of the highest honors bestowed by the French government. The founder of the American Institute of Wine and Food, he shares his knowledge through teaching at The French Culinary Institute. He lives with his wife in Madison, CT.
"Concise. Informative. Indispensible."--Anthony Bourdain
"Pépin asks the reader to not treat this as a book, treat it as an
apprenticeship. I took that to heart, and, indirectly, Jacques
Pépin became my mentor through these techniques."--Tom
Colicchio
"There has never been anything like it anywhere."
--Julia Child
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