Janson Media’s DVD, Jacques Pepin’s Easter Celebration, is a special one-hour program adapted from the television series, Jacques Pepin Celebrates! Throughout the series Pepin and his daughter, Claudine, give creative and elegant culinary ideas for every occasion.
In this Easter celebration, Jacques and Claudine celebrate spring with a lavish dinner inspired by Gallic culinary traditions. Pepin’s sophisticated menu includes caviar with buckwheat blini and frozen vodka, salmon steaks in sorrel sauce, lamb loins served over fava beans, leek and mushroom pie, eggplant “cushions” with stewed tomatoes, and artichoke bottoms stuffed with brown-butter spinach. Caramel snow eggs in custard cream and oatmeal cookies dipped in chocolate offer a satisfyingly sweet conclusion to a meal steeped in the flavors of the season.
Jacques Pepin’s Easter Celebration DVD is available from all major distributors at a suggested retail price of $24.95. The editors of Southwest Airlines’ in-flight magazine Spirit have voted Jacques Pepin the Best Television Chef from a Top Ten list which included Emeril Lagasse, G. Garvin, Lidia Bastianinch, Wolfgang Puck, Tina Nordstrom, Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Ming Tsai and Rachael Ray. Said Spirit of the Janson DVD, “his French-inspired recipes are always solid, and he’s one of the best technique teachers on television.”