The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen by Jacques Pépin
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- ISBN 10 0786256168
- ISBN 13 9780786256167
- Published Sep 01 2003
- Format Hardcover
- Page Count 488
- Language English
- Edition 1
- Countries United States
- Publisher Thorndike Press
Publishers Text
2004 James Beard Award Nominee for Writing & Reference
2004 IACP Award Nominee for Literary/Food Writing Category
In this frank and witty memoir, world-renowned chef Jacques Pépin tells how he rose from a frightened thirteen-year-old apprentice in an Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning TV superstar who continues to teach millions of Americans how to cook.
We see young Jacques struggling to earn respect while working his way up the kitchen ladder: cooking for Jean-Paul Sartre in a Paris brasserie, fending off the advances of Jean Genet, and clowning as he cooks for Eisenhower and Nehru while employed as Charles de Gaulle's personal chef. At twenty-three he takes off for America, where he immediately makes friends with a small group of as-yet-unknown food lovers, including James Beard, Julia Child, Craig Claiborne, and many others. After a near-fatal car accident, Pépin reinvents himself once again and in the process plays a pivotal role in redefining American food.
The Apprentice is the story of a boy's coming of age. But beyond that, it is the story of America's culinary awakening and the transformation of food from a mere afterthought to a cultural touchstone and a national preoccupation.
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- Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pépin
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- Jacques Pepin with Claudine Cooking Series
- Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques: More Than 1,000 Basic Preparations and Recipes, All Demonstrated in Step-By-Step Photographs
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- Jacques Pépin's Encore With Claudine
- Jacques Pepin's Graduation Celebration
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- Jacques Pépin's Kitchen: Encore With Claudine
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- Jacques Pépin's The Art of Cooking, Volume II
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- La Technique: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking
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