Jacques Pépin at MAD5: "Techniques of the Past for the Future"

Good morning!

(Applause)

Good morning, everyone!

(Audience) Good morning!

Claudine and I are delighted
to be with you this morning

to be the first one.

I left home when I was 13
to go to apprenticeship,

that was in 1949.

Actually, home was the restaurant
where my mother was the chef,

I was already in that business.

In fact, there was 12 restaurants
through the years in my family

and 12 of them owned by women,

I'm the first male to enter
that business in my family.

So I went into apprenticeship from Lyon
where my mother has her restaurant

to Bourg-en-Bresse, where I was
[inaudible] a few miles away.

Prior to that, when we were
about 8-9 years old,

my mother at [inaudible] restaurant so,

my brother and I before going to school
walk with my mother to the market,

the Saint