{{Short description|American chef}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2026}} '''Peter Clark Kump''' (October 22, 1937 – June 7, 1995) was an American figure in the culinary arts.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hCegCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA327 Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover's Companion to New York City]</ref><ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VLNR-KFT California Birth Index]</ref> The founder of Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, he also co-founded the James Beard Foundation with Julia Child.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/about/history|title=James Beard Foundation|website=James Beard Foundation|language=en|access-date=2018-09-17}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title = Peter Kump, Expert Chef and Cooking Teacher, Dies at 57|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/09/obituaries/peter-kump-expert-chef-and-cooking-teacher-dies-at-57.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1995-06-09|accessdate = 2015-12-09|issn = 0362-4331|first = Bryan|last = Miller}}</ref>
== 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.<ref name=":0"/>
Initially, his career was based in theater. He began a theater company after graduating from Stanford called Comedia Repertory Company on the San Francisco Peninsula. After 5 years he left to attend Carnegie Mellon University where, after taking the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Class, was asked by Ms Wood to be on her teaching staff teaching speed reading in Pittsburgh and to members of President Richard M. Nixon's staff in the mid-1960s. He moved to New York City in 1967, becoming the national director of education for Evelyn Wood.<ref name=":0" />
His involvement in the culinary world began with cooking classes at James Beard's culinary school, taking classes from Beard, Diana Kennedy, Simone Beck, and Marcella Hazan.<ref>{{Cite news|title = THE LEGACY OF PETER KUMP|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1995/06/14/the-legacy-of-peter-kump/844a4c0c-f29b-499b-a303-e72147de4709/|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = 1995-06-14|accessdate = 2015-12-09|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Carole|last = Sugarman}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title = Savoring Gotham: A Food Lovers Companion to New York City|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hCegCgAAQBAJ|publisher = Oxford University Press|date = 2015-11-11|isbn = 9780190263638}}</ref> The classes prompted him to open his own cooking school, Peter Kump's New York Cooking School, in 1974.<ref name=":0" /> In 1979, the school was relocated from his apartment to 307 East 92nd Street.<ref name=":2" /> A few days before his death, Kump sold the school to Rick Smilow who then moved it to 23rd Street, opening a few months later. In 2001, Smilow renamed the school The Institute of Culinary Education (ICE).<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = ICE History & Tradition {{!}} Institute of Culinary Education|url = http://www.ice.edu/about-us/history--tradition|website = www.ice.edu|accessdate = 2015-12-09}}</ref>
In the mid-1980s, Kump was president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the New York Association of Cooking Teachers.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":2" />
In 1985, he co-founded the James Beard Foundation with Julia Child. After Beard's death, Kump and Child arranged the purchase of Beard’s Greenwich Village brownstone, converting it to the headquarters of the culinary arts organization. In 1991, he worked with the Foundation to establish the James Beard Awards.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title = Foundation History {{!}} James Beard Foundation|url = http://www.jamesbeard.org/about/history|website = www.jamesbeard.org|accessdate = 2015-12-09}}</ref> He was the president of the foundation until his death in 1995.<ref name=":2" />
He died June 8, 1995, at his home in East Hampton, Long Island of liver cancer.<ref name=":0"/>
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