Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques

Name: Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques
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SKU: 9781579129118
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In Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques, master chef Jacques Pépin provides a detailed guide to essential cooking skills. The book offers over 1,000 color photographs and step-by-step instructions, helping both novice and experienced cooks improve their culinary techniques. Covering everything from basic knife skills to complex preparations, this comprehensive manual is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in honing their kitchen craft.
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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about honing your culinary skills, as it offers a comprehensive guide with step-by-step instructions and illustrations from one of the world's foremost culinary teachers. Ideal for both novice cooks and experienced chefs, this collection of techniques will enhance your cooking repertoire with practical and creative insights.

Jacques Pépin is universally hailed by professional chefs and home cooks as the grand master of cooking skills and methods. Now, his classic seminal work, Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques, is completely revised and updated with more than 1,000 color photographs and 30% new techniques.

Jacques Pepin is an expert on classic methods of food preparation and techniques, having hosted 12 television series and written 26 cookbooks, he has earned his pace in the pantheon of the all-time greatest chefs and cooks.; The material for Complete Techniques is based on Pepin's 1978 and 1979 archetypal works La Methode and La Technique. This revised and updated edition will include colour photographs and new and updated techniques, all culled from Pepin's archive and hand-selected by Chef himself.

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A culinary masterclass taught by the master himself, Jacques Pépin's New Complete Techniques includes more than 600 cooking techniques and methods along with 160 recipes. Each recipe and technique is explained using step-by-step instructions accompanied by photographs featuring Pépin himself.

Follow along as this culinary legend demonstrates every aspect of classic cooking, from start to finish. Whether you're a home cook interested in learning basic skills, or a seasoned professional looking for pro-tips, Jacques Pépin's New Complete Techniques has something for everyone. An example of the range of topics covered includes:

How to sharpen a knife
How to peel an onion
How to bone a chicken
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 colour and black-and-white photographs and is redesigned to make it even easier to follow the step-by-step techniques.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Renowned chefs praise Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques for its concise, informative, and essential instruction. Anthony Bourdain finds it indispensable, while Tom Colicchio views it as a personal mentorship, echoing its in-depth apprenticeship approach. Julia Child commends it for its unparalleled contribution to culinary literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781579129118

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 52.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 2447g

Pages: 736

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About the Author

Jacques Pepin has published twenty-six cookbooks and hosted twelve public television cooking series. One of the best-known culinary teachers in the world, he's earned a place in the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame, captured the foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America award, been recognized for Best TV Cooking Segment and Best Culinary Video, and earned the foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

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.

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