Q: In your memoir The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, you talk about the importance of having dinner as a family, having everyone together to discuss the issues of the day.
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Yup – no devices and no toque
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Yes. (Toque?)
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The hat…
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OMG. I should have known that. Toque = Tuque or Tooook!
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Yes, I too recommend reading the full interview. Monsieur Pépin posted it on his Facebook page yesterday.
Love this man.
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Master Chef, humble, amazing Man. Agree.
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My mum worked full time, so I always came home to an empty house after school. So when I became a Mum I wanted to be there when they came home, the kitchen is the center, the roots of a house, and eating together creates a heart connection.
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Wonderful. Thanks Karen.
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Agreed. As my youngest said then and says now, “Food is love.” Amen to that.
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Your youngest, wise beyond years.
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Yep! Nothing like it. Hearing your child unpack his/her day – good for all of us on so many levels. Now I have to go read the rest of the interview (smile).
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Yes. Nothing like it. Exactly.
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He’s got it exactly right about the early kitchen memories.
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He does!
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I agree, but how often do the children of this era get to do it? Even in the 50’s having Mom, Dad, sisters and brothers was difficult to achieve. Worse than that, I have taught in what was called a ‘disadvantaged school” and the children were called “door-key orphans. There was so much they missed that it had affected their language because there was very little conversation in the home.
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That Marie, is the BIG question.
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yes, i love this and am happy to have my grandsons walk home to my cottage each day after school. we have snacks, do homework, watch a cartoon, talk about the day, relax. it is a magic time.
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Yes!
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The kitchen was the centre of our universe growing up. I worked full time raising my kids but we just about always ate dinner together in the kitchen, not in front of the TV.
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Exactly. Or in front of iPhone, IPAD or other gadgets.
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Some of my happiest childhood memories revolve around the kitchen. Dinner as a family every night and many, many hours spent alongside my mother and grandmother cooking, canning, baking, laughing, crying, learning, growing. Bela’s daughter is right; food is love….
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It’s all about the kitchen….yes.
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Our big farm kitchen was the hub.
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Hub for us too….
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I was a chef for 25 years. People ask me if I watch any of the Chef shows.
“No I don’t. I cant stand them. But I watch Jacques Pepin. He’s great.”
( And sometimes the Americas Test Kitchen)
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He is great Stephen….
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As he teaches you a recipe, there is often a recurring line as he shows you how to do something, or how much of this or that to throw in the pot, or explains what a substitute might be.
“You don’t have to worry too much” Chef Pepin says.
And in the article he talks about “massaging” a recipe, and making it your own.
Occasionally I’ll teach someone a recipe.
I translate this idea of not worrying, and massaging recipes to “Follow Your Dream”
Can we add more garlic, more apples, or leave out the onion?
“Certainement! Just follow your dream!”
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He makes it all look to easy, so natural, so amazing…
“Certainement! Just follow your dream!”
Love that Stephen…
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Love this man! Wish I’d had a mother or father who liked to be in the kitchen … but luckily had a grandmother who loved to cook for us all. 💛
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Grandma!
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