Kitchen Lessons
May 11, 2009 by Dan
Filed under Kids in the Kitchen
by Ramin Ganeshram
May 11, 2009
Chef Jacques Pépin, and daughter, Claudine, have kids sample different tastes
Watch any of Chef Jacques Pépin’s cooking shows and you witness not only a master cook at work but also a master instructor, eager to impart his vast base of culinary knowledge to viewers. It is a role he continues off-screen as a dean of Special Programs at the French Culinary Institute in New York City, and most recently, as a teacher to his 4-year-old granddaughter Shourey.
Pépin is unabashed about the importance of developing a child’s palate, an attitude he says, that comes from being from a family of cooks.
“For me the moment for a child to be in the kitchen is from the moment they are born. For my family in France, many of whom were in the restaurant industry, the crib is in the kitchen out of necessity,” he says. “But the children, they nourish themselves on the noise, the scents, the tastes. There is no place as sacred as the kitchen. You smell the smell of family, hear the noise of mother and father, all of that changes you forever.”
Watch any of Chef Jacques Pépin’s cooking shows and you witness not only a master cook at work but also a master instructor, eager to impart his vast base of culinary knowledge to viewers. It is a role he continues off-screen as a dean of Special Programs at the French Culinary Institute in New York City, and most recently, as a teacher to his 4-year-old granddaughter Shourey.
Pépin is unabashed about the importance of developing a child’s palate, an attitude he says, that comes from being from a family of cooks.
“For me the moment for a child to be in the kitchen is from the moment they are born. For my family in France, many of whom were in the restaurant industry, the crib is in the kitchen out of necessity,” he says. “But the children, they nourish themselves on the noise, the scents, the tastes. There is no place as sacred as the kitchen. You smell the smell of family, hear the noise of mother and father, all of that changes you forever.”
Source: Grandparents