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Essential Pépin

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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appears in Cookbooks for Beginners.

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Flour reads like a practiced baker teaching from behind the counter: recipes for crowd-pleasing pastries (from Homemade PopTarts to croissants) paired with plainspoken tips and a few personal notes. What works best is reliable, reproducible dessert recipes that scale for home cooks who want bakery results. Its limitation: several items use multi-step techniques and pastry-specific equipment, so beginners expecting instant, one-pan sweets may find some recipes time-consuming or fiddly.

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