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Person · Bocuse d'Or award-winning Chef Partner
Philip Tessier
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Philip Tessier, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, cooked at Le Bernardin and Per Se in New York before serving as executive sous chef at The French Laundry in Yountville. Competing for the United States at the 2015 Bocuse d'Or in Lyon, he became the first American chef to reach the podium, taking silver, and subsequently coached the American team that won gold in 2017; he recounted both campaigns in the book Chasing Bocuse (2017). He later became Chef Partner at PRESS in St. Helena, the Napa Valley restaurant founded in 2005 by Leslie Rudd, and has also worked as co-founder and culinary director of Hestan Smart Cooking.
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