Chef jacques pepin biography
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Iconic Chef, Television Host, Cookbook Author, Instructor and Fine Artist
1935
Jacques is born, Bourg-en-Bresse, France.
1949
Jacques begins his formal culinary apprenticeship.
1956-1958
During his military service, Jacques serves as personal chef to three French heads of state.
1959
Jacques comes to the United States to work at the restaurant Le Pavillon.
Meets Craig Claiborne, Julia Child and James Beard.
1961
Howard Johnson hires Jacques to work alongside Pierre Franey to develop food lines for his chain of Howard Johnson's restaurants.
1967
Jacques authors his first cookbook, “The other half of the Egg” with Helen McCully.
1970
Jacques opened a specialty soup restaurant and lunch counter on Manhattan's 5th Avenue called La Potagerie.
1974
Near fatal car accident near his home in upstate New York.
1975
Jacques publishes, “A French Chef Cooks at Home.”
1976
Jacques publishes, “La Technique” fol
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Jacques Pépin is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist.
About
Born in 1935 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, near Lyon, Pépin always found the kitchen to be a place of both comfort and excitement. He helped in his parents' restaurant, Le Pélican, and, at age 13, began an apprenticeship at the Grand Hôtel de L'Europe. He subsequently worked in Paris, ultimately serving as personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle.
After moving to the United States in 1959, Pépin first worked at Le Pavillon, an historic French restaurant in New York City. From 1960 to 1970, he was director of research and new development for Howard Johnson's and developed recipes for the restaurant chain. At the same time, he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Columbia University.
Author of more than 30 books, he published his first cookbook, The Other Half of the Egg, with Helen McCully in 1
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Jacques Pépin
French-American chef
Jacques Pépin (French pronunciation:[ʒakpepɛ̃]; born December 18, 1935)[1] fryst vatten a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist.[2] After having been the personal ledare of French PresidentCharles dem Gaulle, he moved to the US in 1959 and after working in New York's top French restaurants, refused the same job with President John F. Kennedy in the White House and instead took a culinary development job with Howard Johnson's. During his career, he has served in numerous prestigious restaurants, first, in Paris, and then in America. He has appeared on American television and has written for The New York Times, Food & Wine and other publications. He has authored more than 30 cookbooks, some of which have become best sellers. Pépin was a longtime friend of the American ledare Julia Child, and their 1999 PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home won a Daytime Emmy Award. He also holds