Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook

Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook

Of the 20-plus cookbooks Jacques PÃ©pin has written, Chez Jacques is his most personal and engaging. Now starring in his tenth PBS series, PÃ©pin ranks among Americaâ€™s most beloved cooking teachers, and this book shows us why.

The bookâ€™s 100 recipesâ€”for soups and appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and dessertsâ€”are PÃ©pinâ€™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; itâ€™s also a captivating sentimental journey. Each dish is introduced by a recollectionâ€”of picking dandelion greens for a spring salad, of buying fresh eggs from the local farmerâ€”that invites readers to share in the traditions and rituals of PÃ©pinâ€™s most intimate circle.

This treasury of great food, lore, and memory is exquisitely illustrated with a sampling of PÃ©pinâ€™s paintings, as well as hundreds of color photographs of the finished dishes and of PÃ©pin in all his â€œnatural habitatsâ€â€”pitching boules with a group of friends, savoring a glass of chilled rosÃ© in the afternoon sun, painting landscapes, designing menus, and, of course, working in his kitchen.
Country USA
Manufacturer Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
UPCs 001584795719
EANs 9781584795711
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
UPCs	001584795719
EANs	9781584795711
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00