Jacques Pépin Compared Favorably to Statue of Liberty
On the occasion of chef Jacques Pépin’s 80th birthday, recently celebrated by the University as part of MET’s 50th anniversary, the Huffington Post offered a comprehensive retrospective on the career of the man who co-founded the College’s Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy and Certificate in Culinary Arts programs.
A forerunner to the modern world of televised cooking instruction, Pépin views the kitchen as a place not for competition, but for appreciation—and it is that spirit which earned the chef a spot as one of America’s most cherished French imports.
Read the Huffington Post’s appreciation of Jacques Pépin, who they call “the single greatest cooking instructor in the history of food television,” for more on his life, lessons, words, and works.