Peter Kump

Peter Clark Kump (October 22, 1937 – June 7, 1995) was an American figure in the culinary arts. The founder of Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, he also co-founded the James Beard Foundation with Julia Child.

Biography Kump was born in Fresno, California, in 1937. In 1953, his family relocated to Switzerland. He received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama from Stanford University and a master's degree in fine arts from Carnegie Mellon University. The classes prompted him to open his own cooking school, Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, in 1974.

In the mid-1980s, Kump was president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the New York Association of Cooking Teachers. He was the president of the foundation until his death in 1995.

He died June 8, 1995, at his home in East Hampton, Long Island of liver cancer.