Chef Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Bréhier, known as Chef Jean-Pierre, is a French chef, cookbook author and former PBS host who teaches home cooks through recipe videos and kitchen lessons.
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Overview
- From
- Aix-en-Provence, France
- Known as
- Chef Jean-Pierre
- Work
- Chef, cooking teacher, author and television host
- Restaurant beginnings
- Opened The Left Bank in 1976
Mini bio
A kitchen childhood.
Raised in Aix-en-Provence, Jean-Pierre learned alongside his mother, Yolande, a Cordon Bleu chef. A butcher-shop job at twelve preceded an apprenticeship at L’Oustau de Baumanière.
Restaurant to television.
He opened The Left Bank in 1976, then reached public television audiences with Sunshine Cuisine in 1994 and Incredible Cuisine in 1998. In 1997, he opened a cooking school.
Teaching online.
In his own account, the pandemic interrupted his cooking school and led to another retirement project: YouTube. His accessible lessons reached more than two million subscribers. Onion-dicing clips, including “How to Dice an Onyo,” are part of that online identity.
Back with friends.
In July 2026, he returned after almost a year away, explaining that he missed cooking with viewers and hearing their success stories.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
Television
- 1998Incredible CuisineHost
- 1994Sunshine CuisineHost
Restaurants and teaching
- 1997Chef Jean-Pierre’s Cooking SchoolFounder and teacher
- 1976The Left BankChef and founder
Awards
Quotes
Anyone can cook, and if you are not having fun, you are not doing it right !Chef Jean-Pierre, YouTube return message, July 13, 2026
Trivia
- He is the youngest of five children.
- His first job was in a butcher shop at twelve.
- He calls onions “onyo” in a cooking short featured on his official website.
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