publication date: Monday, January 25, 2016 (part of Winter 2016)

category: Cuisine

clue: This French chef provided the seed for today's explosion of television gourmets.

explanation: Pépin was a popular television chef. He authored two cookbooks called Today's Gourmet based on his program of the same title. The word pépin means seed in French. more…

intended difficulty: hard

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, Erik Bates, and Mike Rothstein


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