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Jacques Pepin Biography

Jacques Pépin (French pronunciation: [ʒak pepɛ̃]; born December 18, 1935) is an internationally recognized French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States. Since the late 1980s, he has appeared on French and American television and written an array of cookbooks that have become best sellers.

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When 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.

Beautiful, Wine, Bird, Choose, Start

When 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.

Book, Fast, Past, Prepare, Written, Years

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

Cooking, Favors, Hands, Prepared

I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'

Bring, Call, Next, Time, Two, Watches

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

Simple, Florida, Pbs, Time, Celebration, Everyday

My 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.

Add, Chef, Used, Simpler, Adds

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

Beat, Beats, Bread, Butter, Extraordinary, Hard

After 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!

Anniversary, Years, Wife, Argument, Agree

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male. . . I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

America, Chefs, Family, Mistake, People, Thinking

You 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.

Age, Home, Left, Mother, Parents, Years

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

Friends, Good Friend, Kids, Mind, Mother

Fortunately, I knew the cardinal rule of getting on with one's fellow cooks. It applies in any kitchen and can be summed up in two short words: bust ass.

Two, Kitchen, Ass, Fortunately, Cooks, Cardinal

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

Adult, Choices, People, Reasons, Religious

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

Dog, Hot, Guilty, Love, Glutton, Dogs

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Cutting, Meat, Lots Of Money, Knowledge, Money

You 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.

Becomes, Choices, Part, Professional, Technique, Years

I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.

Daughter, Easter, Garden, Message, Organic

When you'd get a note from someone, the government, it meant something was wrong. This was the way it was. Just goes to show you the way that being a chef has changed, you know - being on the bottom of the social scale and now being what we are, it's incredible, it's terrific.

Changed, Chef, Incredibles, Know, Scale, Terrific

My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.

Beans, Cook, Mother, People, Place, Thinking

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

Kids, Night, Thinking, Eating, Table, Kitchen

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