My name is Jacques Pepin
Jacques Pepin is one of America’s best-known chefs. He is the author of 24 books, including a best-selling memoir, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen. He has also hosted nine public television cooking series, the most recent of which is called More Fast Food My Way. Pepin was born in rural France and his first exposure to cooking was in his parents’ restaurant, Le Pelican. He began his formal apprenticeship at the age of thirteen and went on to work in Paris as the personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle. He moved to the United States in 1959 and studied at Columbia University. Pepin is a former columnist for The New York Times and now writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine. He received France’s highest civilian honor, the French Legion of Honor, in 2004. He lives in Madison, Connecticut.
My Ideas
- What makes a great restaurant?
- It's that je ne sais quoi that clicks with you.
- Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
- A hero who could feed the hungry.
Paul Krugman
Jimmy Wales
Richard Armitage
Billy Collins
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