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Jacques Pépin Complete Techniques 50th Anniversary Edition

A Culinary Master Class from the Legendary Teacher—Over 600 Techniques, 1,000 Photographs, 160 Recipes
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Jacques Pépin is universally hailed by professional chefs and home cooks as the grand master of cooking skills and methods. His classic seminal work, Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a staple in both home and professional kitchens around the world. Comprehensive,... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The bible of cooking technique from master teacher and chef Jacques Pepin has been updated with a beautiful new cover, design, and introduction for its 50th anniversary.

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Jacques Pépin is universally hailed by professional chefs and home cooks as the grand master of cooking skills and methods. His classic seminal work, Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a staple in both home and professional kitchens around the world.

Comprehensive, authoritative, but never intimidating, Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques—which combines the master chef's landmark works, La Methode and La Technique—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, teaching readers how to bone a chicken, poach an egg, whisk a perfect hollandaise, knead a crispy baguette, or bake an exquisite meringue with the perfection and efficiency of a professional. Throughout the book are Pépin's classic recipes, which offer budding masters the opportunity to put lessons into practice with extraordinary results.

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 Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798894141800

Publisher: Running Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Running Press,U.S.

Audience: General / adult, Primary and secondary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 50.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 2460g

Pages: 736

About the Author

Jacques Pepin is a chef, author, television personality, educator, and artist. He has starred in twelve acclaimed PBS cooking series including Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home which won a Daytime Emmy Award. The winner of sixteen James Beard Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, he is the author of over thirty cookbooks, including The Apprentice, Essential Pepin, and Jacques Pepin Quick & Simple. His dedication to culinary education led to the creation of the Jacques Pepin Foundation in 2016.

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