Chill the Champagne and stock up on birthday candles, because Jacques Pépin is turning 90! That’s something to commemorate in and of itself, but at the Jacques Pépin Foundation we’re planning to celebrate both the man and the mission of the JPF.
July 22, 2025
It is our great pleasure to announce that the JPF has selected two graduates of JPF-supported culinary training programs to receive a 2025 JPF Memorial Grant of $5,000 each to continue their culinary journeys. Congratulations to the winners and their respective programs.
July 8, 2025
On Friday June 6th, Director of Grants and Membership Jennifer Quigley-Harris joined Chef Jesse Perez, Chef Claude-Olivier and other staff of The Salvation Army Boston Kroc Center to celebrate their Spring 2025 Culinary Training Program Graduates. We applaud The Salvation Army Boston Kroc Center’s Culinary Training graduates, and all of the participants of the training programs supported by the JPF.
June 30, 2025
The Jacques Pépin Foundation is delighted to announce our first round of 2025 Principal Grant awardees. We are honored to partner with these community-based culinary training programs, and excited to see how far their graduates will go! We are also deeply grateful to our Grants Review Committee volunteers. The time they spent reading and providing feedback on the dozens of proposals we received is vital to the success of the JPF’s mission to spread culinary education.
June 26, 2025
On November 1, 2025, Chef Thomas Keller will host an intimate dinner at The French Laundry in honor of Jacques Pépin and in support of the Jacques Pépin Foundation, as part of our 90/90 Celebration Series. The evening promises extraordinary hospitality in service of a purpose far greater than the meal itself—honoring a legacy of teaching with the greatest culinary educators of our time.
May 28, 2025
We happen to believe that Jacques is one of the greatest culinary instructors of all time, but we were recently surprised to learn he’s also a great English teacher! As Teacher Appreciation Month comes to a close, here is an excerpt from a fun story that Chef Josh Riazi, COO of JPF Grantee Genesis Center – CHOP, shared at their 90/90 Celebration in March.
April 2024
April 2023
April 2022
November 2021
April 2020
August 2019
April 2019
June 2018
June 2018
January 2018
Join the 90/90 celebration with lifetime access to Jacques’ online cooking class “A Legacy of Technique” for a special $90 rate from our friends at Rouxbe.
