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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by WheelsAtLarge on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:32PM (#13050935)
Try, Cooks Country https://www.cookscountry.com/ is by far the best. You can grab the recipes on line, that's how they make their money so you pay, and they show you how to cook it on the show. You can't go wrong. Also, Jacques focuses on French recipes. Yes, it's nice but that's not the only type of food I want to cook.
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by tootie on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:36PM (#13050966)
Everything on PBS is gold. Jacques Pepin is my favorite, but America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Country, Lidia, Ming Tsai, even Nick Stellino. All great.
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by hugodahl on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:54PM (#13051064)
I've always had an affinity, going back to my childhood, for Martin Yan for his cleaver style and catchphrase "If Yan can cook, so can you".
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by sn9 on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:31AM (#13053795)
There are videos of that guy taking apart a whole chicken in 12 seconds.

Just a truly impressive level of skill.

(IIRC, the cleaver is actually a Chinese chef's knife, different in construction from western meat cleavers which are thicker and heavier to chop through bone.)

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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by WheelsAtLarge on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:39PM (#13051383)
True PBS does rock. Food Network HAD some value a while back but it's turned into reality TV which blows.
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by ConroyBumpus on Sunday November 27, 2016 @07:32PM (#13052582)
My local PBS station reruns 1970's Justin Wilson episodes in the middle of the night. Pure awesomeness.
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by aczerepinski on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:24PM (#13051970)
Don't forget Jose Andres!
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Re:Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actuall... by aczerepinski on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:22PM (#13051958)
Disclosure: I work there. We also have another site, onlinecookingschool.com, that's even more directly focused on teaching technique and so forth. I have access to the recipes as a job perk but have barely scratched the surface as the collection is enormous.
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