I watch him occasionally on Create TV, but didn't realize he was 80-years old. I like his simple recipes, and you'll find a number of them here - http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/recipes.html.

Jacques is only 79. Or at least until December. <lol>

I guess cooking leads to a long life!

Sally

I like him but don't watch him much. I just find him to be so hard to understand with his accent. I like some of the things he does and enjoyed several of the shows he did with Julia Child. I still chuckle at the one show where they were doing potato dishes and Jacques was saying you could put a little drizzle of olive oil on them to keep the fat down and Julia Child just about freaked and went "OH, put some BUTTER on those potatoes, what's WRONG with you!!!" They had their moments together.

I love Jacques Pepin! He is the culinary director of a cruise line we traveled with two years ago. They played his cooking shows on the "on ship " TV and at the end we each got a CD of all the shows as well as " Essential Pepin... all the techniques a cook needs to know"

I have watched it over and over it's fabulous. He talks so simply and makes it all easy and entertaining. I'm passing the CD on to my daughter.

Some of those recipes sounds delish and manageable even for me! I'm gonna try and put a few of them on rotation for this fall.

Perhaps he's faring so well into old age because of his 'ealthy cooking'...? He has always been my fave TV chef.

http://ww2.kqed.org/jpepinheart/

Yes, what a good link to some of his quick recipes. I have always liked his show and with Julia. They paired well together.

I like that he cooks very savory and even his desserts are not overly sugared.

Fried capers! The big ones, sounds good. Would be nice with fried sage leaves...with green peppercorn steak.

My dad has been fibing about his age i think. He has been 87 this year but turns 87 in November. : ) Mom keeps correcting him in the background when we are on the phone.

His autobiography is very interesting.

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

Jerry and I used to wish for subtitles for his show, but I've gotten used to his accent and can understand most of what he says. Now we just want subtitles for some of the British shows we watch.

What I like about Pepin is he's so kind, and such a good teacher. He makes everything look so easy. His plating is gorgeous.

Sally

I learned to debone a chicken from this video; now chicken galantines are a snap, especially easy when done sous vide.

Yeah, the deboning! He won my heart when I was in college with his story about the deboning, and his apprenticeship (before the autobiography) and even though I didn't have any time for it just then, I was given Complete Techniques for my birthday because I was so enamored. I love that book. Long before the World Wide Web, this simple photographs that show him actually doing the thing, and in sequence so you can see all the steps at once, rather than only one at a time, like in a video. Brilliant!

In watching him move about the kitchen on his show, you can see that he moves slowly and stiffly as if he has arthritis or some other age-related condition. Then you see him pull out his knife, and chop a carrot, or dice an onion, and its almost a blur, probably as fast as a food processor, and simply perfect. Remarkable.