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Member Magazine MAY 2017 Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft KQED Perks Family Fun Day at the Presidio Officers’ Club Join the Presidio Trust and KQED for a free family fun day at the Presidio Officers’ Club onSaturday, May 13, from 10:30am to 2:30pm. Get curious about the Presidio’s natural and cultural history with special guests Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat, from the PBS KIDS animated television series. Enjoy interactive exhibits and hands-on bird-themed crafts celebrating International Migratory Bird Day. Learn about local wildlife from the Roving Ranger Truck and find out how you can be involved in your park! presidio.gov/kqed The wait is over for the year’s Check, Please! Bay Area’s Taste & Sip event! Join KQED and Leslie Sbrocco on Tuesday, May 23 to sample gourmet cuisine and sip great wines from restaurants and wineries from around the Bay Area. 6:30-9pm San Francisco Design Center Galleria KQED members: $85 Nonmembers: $95 A display of Jacques Tickets available through City Box Office: www.cityboxoffice.com or 415.392.4400 The 12th season of Check, Please! Bay Area is sponsored by Integrated Resources Group, European Sleep Works, Oakland International courtesy Jacques Pépin; Airport, Sutter CPMC 2020, La Tourangelle, and Total Wine & More. Jacques Pépin with daughter Claudine and granddaughter kqed.org/checkplease NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Tour: North Bay courtesy Jennifer Huang; Tank and the Bangas — the winner of NPR Music’s 2017 Tiny Desk Contest — will perform a courtesy Jacques Pépin. (top to bottom, page 2) CG: ® & © 2014 Universal Studios and/ free concert at the Lagunitas Petaluma Taproom on Goodfriend/KQED. courtesy Wendy Tuesday, May 9, from 5:30 to 8:30pm. The event, hosted by KQED, NPR Music, KRCB and Lagunitas Brewing Company, will also feature performances by local contest entrants. Admission is free. Space is limited. Reserve your spot online. Chez Pépin, restaurant, of his mother’s in front Jacques Pépin as a young apprentice Jacques Pépin in the kitchen, 1960s, nprpresents.org Photos: (cover) or HMH. All Rights Reserved. The PBS KIDS logo is a registered mark of PBS and is used with permission; courtesy KQED; Marian Carrasquero. (pages 2 & 3, l. to r.) Books on Food in San Francisco, cookbooks at Omnivore Pépin’s on the set of Jacques Pépin Heart and Soul, Shorey On Q May 2017 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television It’s an only-in-America story: a roguish young immigrant with movie-star looks, “I feel that if Jacques Pépin a charming Gallic accent, a sense of anything’s-possible optimism and an ability shows you how to make to raise humble kitchen techniques to a breathtaking art form becomes one of the nation’s most beloved and revered food icons. an omelet, the matter is Jacques Pépin’s story — which encompasses his contributions to the pretty much settled. That’s profession of cooking, food television and the very way we eat today — is a tale even his legions of devoted fans may not be familiar with. Today he is known God talking.” as a kitchen supernova, a working whirlwind of creative energy even at 80 years old, who crisscrosses the country teaching, cooking, speaking, consulting and — Anthony Bourdain enjoying the celebrity generated by 13 successful television cooking series, nearly 30 cookbooks and accolades ranging from an Emmy Award to the French Legion Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ of Honor. The new KQED and American Masters documentary Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft, directed by Peter L. Stein, traces Jacques’ surprising journey from the countryside of wartime France to cooking at the most influential French restaurant in the United States to improving the food at a massive American roadside restaurant chain to the car accident that took him from behind the stove American Masters — Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft premieres into a new career as a writer, a teacher and ultimately a media star. Friday, May 26, at 9pm on KQED 9. Jacques’ story and personality are brought vividly to life in the film, not only through his own recollections, but also through a trove of unique archival imagery and film, and the heartfelt testimony of his colleagues and family (including wife This month’s Chefs Flight film series also Gloria and daughter Claudine, his frequent on-camera collaborator), along with a profiles three other culinary icons — Alice Waters, James Beard and Julia Child. who’s-who of culinary stars and media personalities such as José Andrés, Anthony Friday nights, May 19 and 26, on KQED 9. Bourdain, Tom Colicchio, Dana Cowin, Rachael Ray, Marcus Samuelsson and Fareed Zakaria. KQED.org Support for Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft and the Chefs Flight series are provided by Feast It Forward. Major support for American Masters is provided by AARP. Additional funding is provided by Rosalind P. Walter, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Judith and Burton Resnick, Ellen and James S. Marcus, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, Vital Projects Fund, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation, and public television viewers. 3 News KQED Health Reporter Takes Top Prize for a Year’s Worth of Stories The Association of Health Care The AHCJ award judges noted that Journalists (AHCJ) — an independent, April’s work “shows the true range of a nonprofit organization dedicated to great health care reporter,” adding that her advancing public understanding of stories were “compelling and well-crafted, health care issues — has awarded providing context, emotion and character, KQED Public Radio health reporter often in just a few minutes. We were April Dembosky its top prize in the beat impressed by the creativity and breadth of reporting category for her “2016 body her ideas and the quality of her execution.” of work.” Said April, “I’m so honored to Among April’s many 2016 stories, receive this award from AHCJ. It feels so the AHCJ highlighted that her reporting important to be reporting on health right exposed how some pharmaceutical now. There have been so many shifts in companies doubled the price of health-care policy and business practices in Seconal, the drug used for aid-in-dying recent years, it’s crucial that we understand patients; how insurance companies how patients and their families are have circumvented mental health laws, impacted by the changes. It is an honor and making it more difficult for patients to privilege for me to sit and talk with people get the mental health care they need; and to share their stories with our listeners.” and how the Affordable Care Act has complicated immigration concerns in KQED News reporting on health is supported by the California Endowment and the members California’s farming industry. of KQED . Photos: (top to bottom) courtesy Christina Z. White/KQED; Robin Holland. Bill Moyers on the Freedom of the Press A conversation with KQED’s John Boland Fifty years after the Public Broadcasting Moyers will join KQED President John Act of 1967 established the Corporation Boland for a unique discussion about the for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and challenges currently facing the media in age of eventually, PBS and NPR, public media increasing hostility toward the press and what is at a crossroads. The CPB is facing the citizens and journalists can do about it. possibility of being cut out of the federal budget, and the Trump administration Thursday, May 18 Doors open at 6:15pm, 7pm start has so far demonstrated a dismissive, The Castro Theatre, San Francisco even confrontational attitude toward the mainstream press. Although the current $20 KQED members; $25 nonmembers; predicament has been sudden, it’s not the $18 students Use code KQEDMoyers for discount. Rikers: An American Jail, a riveting new first time that public media and the press documentary from Bill Moyers, brings you have been challenged in such ways. Tickets available through City Box Office: face to face with men and women who Perhaps no one is more prepared to www.cityboxoffice.com or 415.392.4400 have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. comment on these issues than Bill Moyers, Moday, May 22, at 9pm on KQED 9. one of the most recognizable figures in the 4 history of public broadcasting. On Q May 2017 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television KQED Joins Nextdoor, Providing Relevant Stories to Local Neighborhoods KQED News has partnered with “At KQED, we’ve worked to be KQED’s Nextdoor presence not only Nextdoor, the free social network for a good neighbor and a trusted news helps ensure that relevant content reaches neighborhoods, to share hyperlocal source to communities across the communities, but also provides an online content and breaking news with select Bay Area and beyond for decades,” platform for dialogue and reflection. Bay Area communities. wrote KQED News Vice President Education, transit and housing reporting Thousands of ayB Area Holly Kernan in an introductory post. and arts, culture and restaurant reviews Photos: (top to bottom) courtesy Christina Z. White/KQED; Robin Holland. neighborhoods are using Nextdoor to “We strive to inform and inspire our will also be shared. stay informed and cultivate meaningful neighbors about what’s going on in their KQED plans to expand its Nextdoor conversations around local issues. KQED corner of California. That’s why we’ve presence to more Bay Area cities in the has begun posting stories to Nextdoor joined Nextdoor — a site that connects coming months. neighborhoods in San Francisco, neighbors, builds community and Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ Oakland, San Jose and Antioch to help informs you about your neighborhood.” nextdoor.com/kqed ensure that the most pertinent KQED reporting reaches them.