Thank you for this. I am a long time Jacques Pépin fan. He is my benchmark for technique, and has probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know.
Nice little lesson today. Would you say that Julia Child and Pepin are like the king and queen of popular cooking? To me, they seem a lot like Carl Sagan or NDT in that they bring a lot of attention to the field, and draw folks into the idea of creative and fun cooking as something to do.
Julia Child was probably the most notable pioneer in modern cooking, she's the Godmother. Both her and Pepin definitely exposed a lot more people to cooking than would have been without them. Back when they started the chef wasn't a celebrity, cooking was a mystery and the chef was a servant who was not allowed in the dining room. I think they helped to bring the chef out of the kitchen just as Sagan and Tyson helped to bring science and wonder out of the lab and into the mainstream.
Nice! I even like the old collection of recipes my folks have from their church. It's just like a DIY cookbook with contributions from the parishioners (or however you're supposed to say that). Even that sort of history can be interesting, particularly with food, since trends come in and out of fashion so much.
That's cool. In like that kind of stuff as well. I have a similar collection of recipes from the hospital my mom worked at for 33 years. Some of those recipes are golden and others should be buried never to be dug up again.
Thank you for this. I am a long time Jacques Pépin fan. He is my benchmark for technique, and has probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know.
Search YouTube for the 2015 interview of Jacques Pépin by Anthony Bourdain. Highly recommended.
That is a great interview! It's cool to see how excited Bourdain is to be talking to a culinary legend.
Nice little lesson today. Would you say that Julia Child and Pepin are like the king and queen of popular cooking? To me, they seem a lot like Carl Sagan or NDT in that they bring a lot of attention to the field, and draw folks into the idea of creative and fun cooking as something to do.
Julia Child was probably the most notable pioneer in modern cooking, she's the Godmother. Both her and Pepin definitely exposed a lot more people to cooking than would have been without them. Back when they started the chef wasn't a celebrity, cooking was a mystery and the chef was a servant who was not allowed in the dining room. I think they helped to bring the chef out of the kitchen just as Sagan and Tyson helped to bring science and wonder out of the lab and into the mainstream.
Have you ever thumbed through "The Joy of Cooking"? My folks had that when I was little! The copy might still be around, in fact.
I have, I actually own that one! I found it in a vintage book store years ago.
Nice! I even like the old collection of recipes my folks have from their church. It's just like a DIY cookbook with contributions from the parishioners (or however you're supposed to say that). Even that sort of history can be interesting, particularly with food, since trends come in and out of fashion so much.
That's cool. In like that kind of stuff as well. I have a similar collection of recipes from the hospital my mom worked at for 33 years. Some of those recipes are golden and others should be buried never to be dug up again.
Very enjoyable and informative read!