French chef Jacques Pépin has received the BCWP Cooking Legacy mention in honour of his extraordinary career and his commitment to promoting culinary knowledge and education as tools for empowerment and social transformation. Through the Jacques Pépin Foundation, he has extended this work to underserved communities. For more than seven decades, Pépin has brought cooking and culinary techniques to millions of people, championing the belief that cooking is a skill accessible to everyone and a pathway to personal and professional development.
