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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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 a 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.