Essential Pépin
More Than 700 AllTime Favorites from My Life in Food
by Jacques Pépin
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appears in Cookbooks for Beginners.
For the first time ever, the legendary chef collects and updates the best recipes from his sixdecade career. With a searchable DVD demonstrating every technique a cook will ever need. In his more than sixty years as a chef, Jacques Pépin has earned a reputation as a champion of simplicity. His recipes are classics. They find the shortest, surest r...
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