Cooking Is The Art Of Adjustment.

All The Great Chefs I Know - Thomas Keller, Jean-georges Vongerichten - They Are Technicians First.

The Menus That Remain, For Me, Are Really The Menus That You Have With Your Good Friends, With Your Wife, With Your Mother, With Your Kids. These Are What Stay In Your Mind.

The Idea Of Old Was To Conform Yourself To A Style Of Cooking, It Was Not To Create A Style Of Cooking. Now The Chef Is So Much Into 'i Want To Sign That Dish And Say I Am The One Who Made That Dish.

I Taped My First Series For Pbs In 1982 At Wjct-tv In Jacksonville, Florida. The Show, Called 'everyday Cooking With Jacques Pepin,' Was About Saving Time And Money In The Kitchen - And It Was A Celebration Of Simple And Unpretentious Food.

Thirty, 40 Years Ago, More Than That Now, Even, The Cook Was Certainly At The Bottom Of The Social Scale. And Any Mother Would've Wanted Their Child To Marry A Doctor, A Lawyer, An Architect, Not A Cook. Now, We Are Genius, It's Different.