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Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites From My Life In Food (2011)

by Jacques Pépin(Favorite Author)

4.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0547607385 (ISBN13: 9780547607382)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: In “Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food,” world-renowned chef Pepin, popularly known for his cooking show, shares his recipes—which are divided into categories like soups, salads, eggs and cheese, pasta/rice/grains/potatoes, breads/sandwiches/pizzas, shellfish and fish, poultry and game, meat, charcuterie and offal, vegetables and side dishes, fruit desserts, puddings/sweet soufflés/ crepes, cakes/cookies/candles, tarts/pies/pastries, frozen desserts, and basics.After each category, a page of recipes and corresponding page numbers is listed. The recipes themselves are listed with a related tidbit of information, list of ingredients, and a couple of short paragraphs detailing the preparation techniques. Most of the ingredients for ... morethe recipes are pretty basic and, thankfully, easy to find. The recipes cover a wide range of food: anything from risotto with vegetables, mint ice cream, black truffle salad, chocolate soufflé, cheesecake with apricot blueberry sauce, chocolate mousse, potato crepes with caviar, poached oysters with mushrooms and red pepper, apricot fondue, to Christmas fruitcake, broiled lobster with bread stuffing, onion and bread soup, smoked salmon, strawberry buttermilk shortcake, and etc, etc, etc. Throughout the book, well-known dishes are mixed up with more exotic once. The book ends with a long and comprehensive index, organized by ingredients and meal categories. A DVD is included with the book. Now to my thoughts: I tried making some of the recipes in the book, and was impressed by the results. My favorite so far is the black truffle salad. The book is pretty hefty—as the 700 plus recipes in the title indicate. It’s definitely worth it though. Recommended for fans of cooking programs, newbies, as well as professional cooks.
review 2: Exactly what you would expect from the consummate French gourmet chef, the incredibly likeable Jacques Pépin.Starting with a brief history of his early years in the culinary industry and ending with a DVD showing simple cooking techniques and tips, this great treasure trove of fast and easy French haute-cuisine is exceptional.Essential Pépin is broken down into chapters that cover the entire spectrum of edible delights, including soups, salads, breads, seafood, meats, vegetables and several different kinds of desserts. I particularly enjoyed the garlic soup, mushroom-stuffed potato pancakes, clams on a half-shell with cold horseradish-vinegar sauce, corned beef pot-au-feu and the apple fritters.I also really liked the illustrations, which Jacques drew himself!This is a fun cookbook that can be referenced again and again. Essential Pépin is a must for foodies everywhere! less

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