Jacques Pépin's Top Five Pieces for the Kitchen
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Jacques Pépin is a food icon, cookbook author, dean at the French Culinary Institute and one of the people who helped invent the very concept of "TV chef." He’s also a music lover with consummately broad tastes, from Chopin and Albinoni to Sinatra and Brubeck.
He recently stopped by to talk about his new cookbook, Essential Pépin, and we asked him to share his top five music and food pairings. Here’s what he had to say:


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Fond memories of Jacques. His perfectionism from cooking to skiing and above all his ever present smiles which even during his most difficult times warmed the hearts of all his friends, viewers, readers, and followers. Let the music of friendships resonate in all your future endeavors.
Jacques recipe for roast duck was the perfect after-Christmas entree'. Time consuming but worth the effort
Jacqes has always been one of my top three favoriteTV cooks along with Martin Yang, and of course Julia.
Love Jacques Pepin and his philosophy on food, wine and music. I couldn't keep track how many times he mentions in the video "and of course, wine".
Et voila -- Jacques est magnifique.
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Chef Pepin is a perfect man. Music appreciation and cooking. Wow
Don't forget P.D.Q. Bach's Sonata for Harpsichord and Viola, Four-Hands. I recall the second movement was "Ground Round."
No recipe would be complete without Vaughan Williams' March Past Of The Kitchen Utensils.
Don't let Davidl's dish stand there too long. The next selection after the "Frog Aria" was the chorus, "And There Came All Manner of Flies." (Israel in Egypt)
A popular French dish might be prepared to the strains of Handel's aria, "Their land brought forth frogs."
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