The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
by:
Jacques Pépin (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547346540 (0547346549)
Publish date: May 7th 2004
Publisher: Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Biography Memoir,
Cookbooks,
France,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Food Writing
I read this pretty much in one evening - it successfully drew me away from other things I needed to do. I've never read something that so clearly gave me the sense of what it means to 'live and breathe food.' He's been working in the kitchen practically since he could walk, and started his apprent...
A charming memoir told in a series of selected stories and humorous anecdotes, with recipes sprinkled in between. Chef Pepin is really likeable, down-to-earth, and unpretentious about food. I loved the stories about his family, growing up in France with his two brothers and cooking in his mother’s r...
A charming memoir told in a series of selected stories and humorous anecdotes, with recipes sprinkled in between. Chef Pepin is really likeable, down-to-earth, and unpretentious about food. I loved the stories about his family, growing up in France with his two brothers and cooking in his mother’s r...
Pepin writes engagingly in this memoir of his years coming up in the kitchens of France. Pepin has an unpretentious approach to food, and a love of easygoing American manners and palates. It is a cliche perhaps that immigrants to America are the strongest adherents to the principles of democracy, bu...
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