American Masters

Pépin's recipe for quiche Lorraine, which is from the northeast part of France, is inspired by his mother. He also has a method for making dough that doesn't need to rest. "It's just the way my mother used to do, the quiche Lorraine in the style of Lyon."

This recipe for tomato toasts with olives is inspired by Pépin's time in Spain. "Many years ago, I was in Spain, in Barcelona, and I had those tomato toast ... which I love, so I have done my own variation of it."

Pépin's clam fritters bring back fond memories of going clamming in the sea. His recipe includes garlic, jalapeño, and clam juice. "For a nice apéritif, clam fritters in my style."

Pépin teaches us his recipe for a hearty kale soup with garbanzo beans, tomatoes, and more. "I love soup and usually when I do soup, I do a bunch of it because I can freeze it and you know, re-heat it when I need it."

Pépin demonstrates two ways of making mussels. His recipe for moules marinière includes garlic, white wine, onions, seasonings and herbs. It becomes a moules poulette when it is finished with a bit of cream and starch for a slightly thickened sauce.

Pépin loves a cold soup in the summer, and this recipe for tomato-cucumber gazpacho puts good use to the less attractive cucumbers from his garden. He adds Tabasco sauce for some heat, and Greek yogurt for creaminess.

Pépin teaches us his recipe for beef carpaccio, which includes a thinly pounded filet of beef, garnished with scallions, olives and capers.

Pépin shows us how to make one of his favorite dishes for the summer, a fresh corn purée. He demonstrates two ways of removing kernels from the cob, and simply sautes the purée with salt and pepper for a light and delicate dish.

Pépin came up with his recipe for shrimp-stuffed portobello mushrooms when he was working in Paris in the 1950s. "I remember doing escargot, or the snail in French, and instead of putting them in the shell, we used to put them into individual mushrooms. We also put them in artichoke bottoms, so you could eat the whole thing." His recipe has breadcrumbs, garlic, butter and herbs.

Jacques Pépin shows us a simple but tasty Brussels sprouts recipe. He likes his Brussels sprouts sauteed and a little browned and crispy on the edges. "Crusty, very simple recipe and very delicious."

In this episode of "American Masters: At Home," Pépin teaches us how to make onion soup gratinée: "You can do an onion soup, just the onion sauteed with the chicken stock or beef stock, and serve it like this by itself, and that would be an onion soup. But when you add the words gratinée, it is done with a crust of bread and of course cheese."

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