Jacques Pepin; renaissance man in kitchen and classroom

Some go and read a book or rest in their trailer, yet others start a game of Petanque. No change of clothes or shoes required. No special equipment needed, just a set of metal balls and a small piece of gravel sand land to use as a court. ... Born in 1935 in the Rhone-Alps area of France, Pépin started cooking in his parent's restaurant at age twelve. Before he doubled that age he already had worked as chef for Charles de Gaulle, France's strongman prime minister in the ...