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And, as they should, have a nice story about Jacques...

 

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“The cook, when I was young, was really at the bottom of the social scale. Now it has changed, but for me, we’re still mashed-potato bakers. We can’t take it too seriously.” 

 

The Essential Magic of Jacques Pépin

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28 minutes ago, weinoo said:

And, as they should, have a nice story about Jacques...

Thanks for this. It brought some light to a rather dark afternoon. 

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From the linked story, Pépin says, "You learn through a type of osmosis..." which is how so many chefs and we learned in our mother's and grandmothers' kitchens.    No one sat us down and gave instruction.   You were just there and things were happening around you that you absorbed without paying much attention.

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