James Beard- and Emmy-winning chef, tv personality, and author Jacques Pépin chats with Trey Elling about ART OF THE CHICKEN: A MASTER CHEF’S PAINTINGS, STORIES, AND RECIPES OF THE HUMBLE BIRD. Topics include:
- What he loves about chickens (1:32)
- Giving recipes in a narrative style (3:05)
- Cooking over live fire (5:28)
- Working at Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Paris (6:29)
- Moving from France to NYC in 1959 (7:43)
- Choosing Howard Johnson over the Kennedy White House (8:39)
- Making chicken cracklings (13:18)
- The value of a cooked chicken carcass (14:41)
- Deboning chickens, quickly and correctly (15:00)
- Why he & Julia Child were lampooned by SNL (15:47)
- Eggs, the MOST valuable ingredient (18:41)
- A love for painting AND painting chickens (19:19)