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Go Behind the Scenes with Jacques Pépin in BU's Test Kitchen
Jacques Pépin had already been teaching at Boston University for many years when, in 1989, he and Julia Child helped establish a semester-long certificate program in the culinary arts at BU’s Metropolitan College. But they also envisioned a [...]program with courses both in the kitchen and the classroom, in which students could study food through lenses of history, sociology, anthropology, literature, and the arts.
“Julia had said to me, ‘We should start a program in gastronomy. That doesn’t really exist in colleges,’” says Pépin. They wrote to BU President John Silber (Hon.’95), who gave the okay to launch a master’s degree in 1991. Pépin and Child taught the program’s first course. “It is still one of the only programs of its kind in the country,” Pépin says. “It’s been very gratifying.”
“Jacques’ impact on the program is clear—we engage our hands and intellects together in the kitchen,” says Megan Elias, a MET associate professor of the practice and director of the Gastronomy Program. “His visits every semester are really magical times, because he brings joy with him when he enters our kitchens. He’s approachable and supportive. He is interested in the students, and it’s clear that he loves to cook with people, not just for them.”
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Inside the Groce Pépin Culinary Innovation Laboratory
After four months and more than $200,000 in renovations, MET’s Groce Pépin Culinary Innovation Lab was inaugurated back in October with a visit from famed chef Jacques Pépin.
Its first major renovation in thirty years, the demo kitchen now [...]boasts gleaming stainless steel appliances and a series of high-tech overhead cameras and wall-mounted monitors, which provided a closeup view of the acclaimed cookbook author’s culinary technique. Plus, a video that takes you behind the scenes, with a glimpse into the 16-stove professional kitchen where MET culinary art students hone their craft.
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Jacques Pépin reads "Le Dormeur du Val" by Arthur Rimbaud (Favorite Poem Project)
In this video, popular TV chef and cookbook author Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11), cofounder of, and an instructor in, Metropolitan College’s Certificate Program in the Culinary Arts, reads his favorite poem, Arthur Rimbaud’s [...]“Le Dormeur du Val,†in both French and English, and shares memories of his time as an apprentice chef in Paris during the 1950s.
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Urban Agriculture Class Tours the Victory Gardens
A short introduction to Urban Agriculture class, where students explore Boston's community gardens.
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Farm to Table with Chris Fischer
In the video above, James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Fischer, author of The Beetlebung Farm cookbook, takes two Metropolitan College students through a day in the life of his family farm on Martha's Vineyard.
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