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Hit your local Asian market and buy some dried crab or shrimp chips. Fry them, then spoon in some creme fraiche, salmon caviar and minced chives.
KATHY WILLENS / AP
Hit your local Asian market and buy some dried crab or shrimp chips. Fry them, then spoon in some creme fraiche, salmon caviar and minced chives.
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Jacques Pepin may have cooked for French President Charles De Gaulle, Julia Child and even Howard Johnson himself, but he’s no snobby chef. The veteran television cooking show star and cookbook author is a home cook, too. Sensible tips anyone can use in their own kitchens are sprinkled through his latest work, “Jacques Pepin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen” (Rux Martin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35). We’ve pulled 10 ideas from his book to get you started.