June 24, 2024
In this wide-ranging interview, ‘Transforming Lives through Culinary Training: Dr. Rollie Wesen and the Jacques Pépin Foundation,” Rollie shares personal stories, details about the origins and impact of the JPF, delightful anecdotes about Jacques and Claudine and an overview of his work on sustainable food systems at Johnson and Wales University.
June 6, 2024
The JPF kicked off our 90 for 90 campaign at Marea, on Central Park South in New York City. The fundraising event, securing critical funds for the JPF’s programming and preservation of Jacques’ legacy, hosted by the Alta Maria Restaurant Group, was a warm and convivial start to the national campaign, that will continue through Jacques’ 90th birthday in December of 2025.
June 3, 2024
Jacques and the JPF team were on site at the Yale New Haven Health, Irving and Alice Brown teaching kitchen. The kitchen, led by Dr. Nate Wood, was created to help medical residents and their patients learn to make delicious and healthy food from whole, fresh ingredients. Jacques demonstrated several quick and simple recipes that are naturally healthful.
June 1, 2024
The JPF co-hosted with the Julia Child Foundation a fundraising event in support of the Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The project at the museum in Washington, DC is the home of Julia Child’s complete kitchen, down to the post-it notes on the telephone, from her home in Cambridge, MA. The event was emceed by our own acting board chair, Brian Maynard, a long-time friend of Julia’s.
May 16, 2024
Earlier this month, two Chicago-based JPF Grantee organizations – Impact Culinary and Inspiration Kitchens – served as the hosts for the Catalyst Kitchens Midwest Regional Summit. These semi-annual meetings are always a great opportunity to make vital connections with community-based culinary training programs. Of course, the JPF was there!
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