Episode 334: Chef Jacques Haeringer on Preparing a Thanksgiving Feast
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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With Thanksgiving coming up this week, Newt talks with his favorite chef and good friend, Chef Jacques Haeringer, executive chef and proprietor of the legendary L’Auberge Chez François restaurant in Great Falls, Virginia. Chef Haeringer discusses his life-long career in the restaurant business, what it was like to survive COVID shutdowns and his suggestions for preparing the perfect Thanksgiving feast.
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| 0:34.6 | On this episode of Newt's World I am really excited. My favorite restaurant in the entire world |
| 0:41.4 | and I've had a chance to sample a lot all over the place is La Baix-Chef Francois in Great Falls, Virginia. |
| 0:48.6 | The ambiance, the staff, the food are just extraordinary and every time Cliston and I go out there |
| 0:56.0 | we are once again reminded what an amazing place it is and one of the keys to it's being so amazing |
| 1:02.2 | is our guest today, chef Jacques Harringer, the executive chef and the owner. |
| 1:16.9 | La Baix-Chef Francois is a legendary place. |
| 1:20.4 | Chef Francois of course was his father, Francois and Jacques himself is added to it by creating |
| 1:26.9 | a restaurant inside the restaurant that we'll get him to talk about a little bit. |
| 1:31.2 | We're going to talk a little bit about Thanksgiving but first I can't have chef Jacques Harringer |
| 1:37.2 | here without having him tell you the amazing story about his father and how they first |
| 1:44.1 | opened Chef Francois which is an authentic outstation restaurant, it's not just French it's outstation |
| 1:50.4 | and they're very clear about this. They first opened it near the White House in Washington in 1954 |
| 1:57.0 | and then it ultimately goes out to Great Falls at a time when Great Falls was the wilderness. |
| 2:03.1 | So Jacques as you know I think of you as a very dear friend and share with us for a couple minutes |
| 2:08.2 | your father's journey. Certainly my parents came in 47, dad was in the French army but after |
| 2:17.0 | the war he and my mother came over and he worked because his uncle, my great uncle Jacques |
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