Since his time as a student at Columbia University, Pépin has dabbled in and enjoyed drawing and painting. In recent years, he has committed more time to his art, and enjoyed some success with commercial sales on his website, Jacques Pépin Art, and juried shows. In the first decade of the 2000s, Pépin published several more cookbooks including "Fast Food My Way" and "More Fast Food My Way", which were paired with television series of the same name, produced by Tina Salter, and "Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook", that significantly featured Pépin's art. In 2011, Pépin filmed the series "Essential Pépin" at KQED studios and published a companion cookbook with over 700 recipes and a set of technique-oriented videos. In 2012, he published "New Complete Techniques", which combined and updated his important earlier works "La Technique" and "La Methode".