Jean-Marie Josselin | |
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Cooking style | Hawaii regional cuisine and American |
Current restaurant(s)
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Website | Jo2 |
Jean-Marie Josselin is a renowned chef who was one of the pioneers of Hawaii regional cuisine. He authored A Taste of Hawaii. [1]
Josselin was born in Chamonix, France. After an apprenticeship at a local bistro, he decided to move to Paris and train as a chef. He studied at the Lycee Hotelier de Paris and worked at the Montorgueuil until he was approached by an American businessman to work in a restaurant in the United States. [2]
He began working in St. Louis, Missouri in 1982, then moved from restaurant to restaurant. [3] Josselin moved to Hawaii and began making food that fused the cuisines of Hawaii's many ethnic groups in 1985. [4] In 1990 Josselin opened a restaurant in Kapaa, Kauai. He opened several other restaurants, then suddenly sold all of his restaurants and went on hiatus. [4] By 2015, he had opened three restaurants in Kauai and a restaurant in Las Vegas. [5]
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