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- NAME: Jacques Pépin
- OCCUPATION: Chef
- BIRTH DATE: December 18, 1935 (Age: 77)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Bourg-en-Bresse, France
- Full Name: Jacques Pépin
- ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
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Jacques Pépin is a chef and the host of cooking shows on public television. He is also an author, columnist and former guest judge on the Bravo show Top Chef.
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He currently hosts Essential Pépin, his 13th TV series.
Pépin had a long-running column in The New York Times, and now writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine magazine. He has written more than 20 cookbooks, many of them companions to his public television shows, and his memoir, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, was published in 2003. Pépin was also a guest judge on Season 5 of Top Chef in 2008.
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Personal Life
Pépin married his wife, Gloria, in 1966, and they live in Madison, Connecticut. He has one daughter, Claudine, and one grandchild. He has been awarded the French government's highest honor and holds the title of Chevalier de L'Ordre National de la Legion D'Honneur, or "Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor."
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