"I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college."

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You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

— Jacques Pepin