1193: Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s poem is Chanson d’automne by Paul Verlaine, with special guest Jacques Pépin. He is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist who has appeared on American television, has written for The New York Times and Food & Wine and has authored more than 30 cookbooks. He has been honored with 24 James Beard Foundation Awards, five honorary doctoral degrees, the American Public Television's lifetime achievement award, the Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2019 and the Légion d'honneur, France's highest order of merit, in 2004. In 2016, with his daughter, Claudine Pépin and his son-in-law, Rollie Wesen, Pépin created the Jacques Pépin Foundation to support culinary education for adults with barriers to employment.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Jacques shares… “After the hot summer and before the hard winter, there is a certain — plenitude, you know, a certain tranquility to the fall which leads yourself to remembering and to thinking about the past and so forth.”

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Major. The best way to support the slowdown is with a monthly gift.
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0:16.8	Hey, it's slowdown producer Micah Kielbonne.
0:20.1	We all need to take a moment to pause.
0:22.4	Here at the show, we realized we know some pretty amazing poetry lovers who have their own slowdown moments to share with you.
0:29.7	Shefs, musicians, journalists, and more.
0:32.9	These late summer Wednesdays,
0:34.9	we're bringing you their selections.
0:37.4	We hope you enjoy. I'm Jacques Pepin and this is the slowdown.
0:47.0	And this is the slowdown. My mother at a little restaurant after when I was in seven, eight years old, so you know I started working.
1:06.0	My father disappeared. He went in the resistance during the Second World War.
1:11.0	So, and my mother was at home. Our house in Borham West where I come,
1:17.0	West bombed, three times actually. And three times we were not there. We were in the garden with my grandmother and all that, but the house,
1:25.4	but partially destroy us to be ridden.
1:28.3	But the point is that my father would come, you know, trying to sneak out of the wood somewhere and to spend a day with us in town and
1:38.0	each time became the house was destroyed didn't know it had no way of knowing there
1:42.2	is no telephone or anything.
1:43.6	So he found out that some cousin and so forth.
1:46.6	So it was pretty tough time.
1:48.6	And then I left home when I was 13 to go into formal apprenticeship. Life was in a sense easier for a kid.
1:58.4	I mean my father was a cabinetmaker, my mother was a cook, so I was going to be a cabinet maker or a cook.
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