Jacques Pépin's Hanukkah Dinner Party with a French Twist

[@dee_dee_place]

Happy Holidays to The Pépin Family & everyone at KQED.

[@kqed]

Happy Holidays to you! & everyone watching Jacques Pepin!

[@PetraKann]

@@kqed Yes indeed - a very Merry Christmas to everyone

[@camillemiller-o9t]

💕🙏Merry Christmas 🎄

[@RS-yd2bp]

Chag hanukkah semeach (happy hanukkah) to the best chef in the world

[@monkgroupie]

Not only are these recipes wonderful, but I love the way Claudine and her father talk to each other!

[@jenkornblum3795]

she talks to him (sadly) like she's in charge and it's ridiculous!

[@joannaedwards6325]

Decorating the chicken liver moose was absolutely mezmerizing.

[@kqed]

It was like a painting! Fine art!

[@paulwagner688]

I loved these specials. And clarifying a consommé is one of the most difficult things to do, and Chef makes it so easy for anyone to do it. And he's SO GOOD with the kids. I love when he cooks with Shorey. What a delight. I don't think I had seen this one before. Thanks, KQED for sharing this.

[@eneaauriti]

A cooking legend!

[@thomasmillott8061]

A true master to watch. Such a pleasure!

[@engc4953]

I’ve never seen this episode before, thank you and Happy Hanukkah.

[@texasbluebonnet4303]

Happy holidays, Jacque, to you and your loved ones who are so very fortunate to have you. It is good to see you looking so well and happy, fellow. Au revoir!

[@dzintrarowe4272]

They both look wonderful.

[@tcparker1000]

That was really lovely.

[@SamanthaSorbo]

Great episode as always!👍🏻👍🏻 Merry Christmas!!🌲💕💕💕

[@ryanmccoy1612]

A classic. I love all the episodes from this series. I hope the Christmas episode is on the way

[@normaestrada4352]

I love to see this chef's programs. He's the best

[@VCurrie]

Happy holidays! I really enjoyed seeing Jacque Pepin again

[@tom_something]

In the US sometimes we put popular cookies/biscuits called Nilla Wafers into banana pudding. Souffle glace and tiramisu remind me of this a little bit.

[@joannaedwards6325]

Or one could skip all the ingredients & prep and just have a snifter of cognac 😄.

[@DouglasCohen1962]

English Trifle

[@tom_something]

@@DouglasCohen1962 Ah, yes.

[@beesinthegardens]

A real gentleman ❤️ Happy Chanukah to all our Jewish friends ❤️🇮🇱

[@MotoComfy]

very special.Thank you very much 🇺🇦🏋️

[@Deborah10000]

Adore this! Finally learned how to make lady fingers! Happy Hanukkah! Happy holidays!

[@AniKeith-t3h]

My favorite chef ❤❤❤❤❤

[@cliffpanisi-y9e]

remember this video on holiday season master chef Jacques Torres with his daughter

[@Roccodabest]

We miss the Cooking at Home series!

[@kqed]

There are a few more coming in the new year. We hope you'll enjoy these classic episodes from his 'Celebrates' series while you wait!

[@happycat3399]

What year was this filmed?

[@disophisis]

One site I found said it was filmed in 2001.

[@happycat3399]

I was guessing perhaps 1998-99 💕

[@behringerm]

Watching him cook with Claudine shows his joy of cooking and her joy in working with her father

[@kqed]

It originally aired in 2013. It's from Season 2 of his "Celebrates" series of holiday recipes. More to come!

[@happycat3399]

Keep em coming! Love our Chef Pepin!

[@tomoytcmom9890]

Uh oh...this for Chanukah, but Jewish people are not supposed to have dairy products with chicken or meat. Any sub for the cream in the quenelle???

[@81chicagoguy]

Yeah, noticed that, too.... I used the water from a tin of chickpeas when I made a dish like this for a lactose intolerant guest. It worked OK....

[@israeltourguide]

Fascinating menu - but there was nothing traditional for Chanuka about it - and it would have been nice for a dinner to celebrate Jewish holiday for it to at least try to stay within the laws of keeping kosher - cream with the chicken, absolutely not

[@81chicagoguy]

Yeah, I found that disappointing, too

[@holdenmcroinn9193]

The implication is that their Jewish friends will at least have a few “traditional” things they can eat (the liver patee, the latkes, the meringue), not that it’s all kosher. I think the title is just misleading. Yes, he made a mistake with the chicken, but to think Jacques is an expert in kashrut is absurd.

[@israeltourguide]

@@holdenmcroinn9193 I don't expect him to know anything about kashrut, I do expect his production staff to figure it out. And there was absolutely nothing, zilch, nada, "traditional" in the menu - even the latkes bore no resemblance to any traditional latkes - and heaven forbid if any of his guests actually cared (even minimally) about kashrut - there was nothing there to eat. He's a great chef - but a bit more research would have resulted in something less offensive.

[@holdenmcroinn9193]

@@israeltourguide The reason I put traditional in quotations is that Jews, at least the Ashkenazis living in NYC, have been eating liver and latkes as comfort food for over 100 years (and a meringue with citrus as a vague allusion I guess to Sukkoth, who knows): not because there’s some monolithic, pan-Judaic cuisine that is gotten from the scholia of some ancient scroll. What you fail to understand is that the Jews who attended this party would have themselves had to discern what suited the degree of kashrut they adhered to. They all seemed pretty pleased, in spite of any mistakes. Nowadays, plenty of people call themselves Jewish despite not caring less whether these latkes that you so deplore for their inauthenticity be made in exactly the way their great grandfather Reb So-&-so liked them. If you are offended, I pity you. יהי שלום י״ עליך

[@israeltourguide]

@@holdenmcroinn9193 Your pity is wasted on me - I could care less what you think. As to your comment about Ashkenazi Jews living in NYC eating liver and latkes - that is wildly absurd - I am a New Yorker and Ashkenazi and have never heard of this - I even went so far as to ask a number of former New Yorkers about this - and the responses were comical (at best) - bottom line - I don't know (or care) where you saw this - it is far from the norm. As to your attempt at explaining away the meringue as a "vague allusion to Sukkot" - no idea what you are trying to say. I know that most Jews in the US today don't keep kosher and have no idea what that really means - that does not change the fact that if Pepin and his company really cared, they would make a greater effort - but sadly, people just don't care.

[@ruthy102]

Potatoe latkes!

[@jenkornblum3795]

His daughter spoils everything! She needs to go !

[@carollee4356]

How rude

[@DroolRockworm]

What did I just watch lol. But I was in for every minute of it