Book Rec of the Day 4/23/2007

“A delicious book...a joy.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A beguiling memoir.”—The New Yorker

“Smart and quick witted.”—The Washington Post

Pépin started his career as a 13-year-old apprentice to a chef in France and rose to become, in Julia Child’s estimation, “the best chef in America.” His memoir is full of delights and surprises for foodies. Only by reading it will you learn why he chose a job at Howard Johnson over one in the Kennedy White House.

THE APPRENTICE: MY LIFE IN THE KITCHEN, by Jacques Pépin (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)