Eric Pepin

Jaques Pepin is an internationally recognized French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States. Since the late 1980s, he has appeared on French and American television and written an array of cookbooks that have become best sellers.

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In the last encounter between Young and Pepin, before Young went to police, Young said he went to Pepin for help because nobody else would help him. Pepin helped fix the car of Young’s girlfriend, Krystin Birtchet, and worked to find them a place to live. Pepin said they came asking for money but an argument followed when Pepin said he wouldn’t continue to help the two unless they agreed to stop using drugs. They refused his help.

Young said it was his girlfriend who didn’t want Pepin’s help; not him. “She’s young and angry and has problems with men.” He said she flipped Pepin off at their meeting.

Soon after refusing Pepin’s help, Young and his girlfriend went to police. Sergeant Matthew Condon said when they first came to police it was for “employment” related issues. Condon said he offered them the chance to speak to an investigator if the matter was serious. They declined. Instead, Young and his girlfriend sought out a civil attorney. Young’s girlfriend said she believed he had a case and thought a lot of people would believe it.

“They’re calling for an attorney to make a civil case to get the money from Eric Pepin. To them Eric Pepin is the pot of gold in the sky,” Houze said. “All you got to do if you’re Chris Young, like you do every day, is tell a lie. This is the biggest payday he’s hoping he’s ever going to see.”

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Pépin has starred in numerous television shows. The success of his book La Technique, used to this day as a textbook for teaching the fundamentals of French cuisine, prompted him to launch a televised version resulting in an acclaimed 1997 PBS series, The Complete Pépin. Relaunched on PBS ten years after its initial run, the series included a new introduction by Pépin where he stressed that now more than ever the secret to being a successful chef and not a mere line cook lies in knowing and using the proper technique.

In 1999, Pépin co-starred in the PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home with Julia Child. The program was awarded a Daytime Emmy in 2001. His show Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way (based on his 2004 book of the same name) ran on PBS, and Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way is currently being broadcast on PBS' Create Channel. In Essential Pepin (2011), Pépin brings modern touches to some of his favorite recipes from his career. In the 26-part public television series, Pépin demonstrates more than 125 dishes while the companion book, published by Houghton-Mifflin, contains more than 700 recipes. In this series, Pépin is shown cooking with his daughter, Claudine, wife of chef Rolland Wesen. All of his programs have been produced by KQED-TV in San Francisco.

Pépin was a guest judge on season five of the Bravo television show Top Chef, which aired in 2008. He stated that his ideal "final meal" would be roast squab and fresh peas.

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Pépin serves as dean of Special Programs at The International Culinary Center,founded as the French Culinary Institute, in New York City. He is an active contributor to the Gastronomy department at Boston University, where he teaches an online class on the cuisine and culture of France along with professor Kyri Claflin of Boston University's history department. Pépin also writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine and offers an amateur class each semester based on varied culinary topics. Pépin currently resides with his wife, Gloria, in Madison, Connecticut.[4]

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Pépin shared the spotlight with Julia Child in an earlier PBS-TV series that still is shown occasionally on public television stations. This twenty-two show series, Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, was the winner of The James Beard Foundation’s Award for Best National Cooking Show—2001, and the duo received a 2001 Daytime Emmy Award from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. There is a companion cookbook to the series he did with Child and also to two earlier public television series he co-hosted with his daughter, Jacques Pépin’s Kitchen: Encore with Claudine (1998) and Jacques Pépin’s Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine (1998).

A former columnist for The New York Times, Pépin writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine. He also participates regularly in that magazine’s prestigious Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and at other culinary festivals and fund-raising events worldwide. In addition, he is a popular guest on such commercial TV programs as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Today Show, and Good Morning America.

See Also

• Rebelchild

External links

• http://www.pbs.org/food/chefs/jacques-pepin/