Seafood Champion

Jacques Pépin - 2006 Seafood Champion

Credit: Tom Hopkins

Jacques Pépin is one of the founding members of Seafood Choices Alliance. As a chef for over fifty-five years, he has personally witnessed the decline in wild seafood available, and feels that it is every person’s responsibility to make wise seafood choices. His own Letter to the Editor of The New York Times in July, 2004, brought the issues surrounding Caspian Sea caviars to the forefront of public concern.

Jacques Pépin’s latest public television series, his 9th, debuted in the fall of 2004 on PBS-TV stations around the country. It is based on his most recent cookbook, Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and has the same title. His memoir, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, was published in paperback in the spring of 2004 by Houghton after the hardcover edition of the book, published in 2003 by Houghton, became a national bestseller.

A contributing editor to Food & Wine magazine and one of America’s best-known chefs, cooking teachers, and cookbook authors. Pépin serves as dean of special programs at The French Culinary Institute in New York City and teaches at Boston University. In 2004, he was awarded France’s highest civilian honor, the French Legion of Honor. Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Pépin was the personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle, before moving to the United States in 1959. He resides in Madison, Connecticut with his wife, Gloria.

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