Jacques Pépin Celebrity Chef and Former Personal Chef to Charles de Gaulle

NWP welcomes celebrity chef Jacques Pépin!

Jacques Pépin is world renowned as the host of his acclaimed and popular cooking programs on public television, and as a prolific author, respected instructor, and gifted artist. Pépin was awarded the highest honor by the French Government and holds the title of CHEVALIER DE L'ORDRE NATIONAL DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR. Pépin is taping the upcoming series "Essential Pepin" in October 2010 for KQED in San Francisco. His memoir, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2003 and in paperback in May, 2004. He is also a proud grandfather of his daughter Claudine’s child, Shorey.  Chef Pepin is out with his new cookbook "Heart & Soul in the Kitchen" where in he reflects on his amazing life as personal chef to Charles de Gaulle, cooking for other world leaders and passing his love of life and food on to his grandchild. http://www.jacquespepinart.com/