Cookbook Profile: The Short-Cut Cook

The Short-Cut Cook

by Jacques Pépin

The Short-Cut Cook
Jacques Pépin, America's favorite French chef, makes your cooking easier with 150 timesaving recipes and ideas like these:

Make crackers by spritzing wonton wrappers with oil and bake until golden.
Use frozen butternut squash for quick soup.
Freeze salmon and cream cheese appetizer rollups for easy slicing.
Prepare cheese straws appetizers with frozen puff pastry.
Need an elegant entrée in record time? Sauté pork cutlets with prunes and steak sauce.
Spoon a rich-tasting sauce of wine, ketchup, and mustard over grilled steak.
Mix melted chocolate with whipped cream for quick chocolate mousse.
Fill a store-bought, hollowed-out pound cake with quick food processor lemon buttercream.

Jacques Pépin is the celebrated host of award-winning cooking shows on national public television, master chef, food columnist, cooking teacher, and author of nineteen cookbooks. Jacques is the dean of special programs at the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan and an adjunct faculty member at Boston University.

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The Short-Cut Cook
By Jacques Pépin
Morrow Cookbooks/HarperCollins Publishers 2001
Paperback; 288 pages
$18.00; $29.95(CAN)
ISBN: 0060936924
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