How to make decorative swans and flowers out of fruits and vegetables
How to use an old refrigerator as a smoker for trout
The time-tested recipes in this volume teach everyone, from the greenest home cook to the most wizened professional, how to put techniques into practice. This completely revised edition includes thousands of color and black-and-white photographs and is redesigned to make it even easier to follow the step-by-step techniques.
Chef Jacques won a daytime Emmy award for a television show he co-hosted with Julia Child and is among an elite group that has received the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de L'Ordre du Agricole, two of the highest honors bestowed by the French government. The founder of the American Institute of Wine and Food, he shares his knowledge through teaching at The French Culinary Institute. He lives with his wife in Madison, CT.
Praise For…
"There has never been anything like it anywhere." —Julia Child
"Pépin asks the reader to not treat this as a book, treat it as an
apprenticeship. I took that to heart, and, indirectly, Jacques Pépin
became my mentor through these techniques."—Tom Colicchio