约翰·珀西·里贝尔

约翰·珀西·里贝尔 – AKA "Chef Jack" – was proudly born and raised in St. Paul. He discovered his passion for cooking as a teenager and enrolled in culinary school at the St 保罗职业技术学院.

Chef Jack’s restaurant journey began as a 19-year-old prep cook in the brigade of Chef Paul Laubignat at the newly-opened Radisson Plaza in Minneapolis. 接着，他被聘为古德费罗餐厅的一线厨师, Chef Stephen Pyles’s celebrated new American restaurant. 在他的八年任期内, 杰克升任厨师长凯文·卡伦手下的执行副厨师长, cooking multiple James Beard dinners and serving such luminaries as Julia Child, 比利·乔, 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫.

这是他第一次当厨师, he took the reins of Tim McKee’s fine dining destination, 静水的美丽生活, Minnesota. 在乡间搜寻食材, Chef Jack cultivated the relationships with craft purveyors that became a hallmark of his style. He next spearheaded the Dakota Jazz Club’s relocation to its 400-seat Minneapolis home. Artists such as Wynton Marsalis and Hugh Masekela praised Chef Jack’s hospitality, which transformed the Dakota into a dining destination named one of the top ten jazz clubs in the world by Playboy magazine.

作为共同所有人出局, Chef Jack opened the craft bourbon and barbecue mecca Butcher and the Boar. 它很快成为明尼阿波利斯的一个热点, garnering James Beard finalist nods for Best Chef Midwest and Best New Restaurant. 经过短暂的转弯，前往Paddy Shack和Il Foro, 厨师杰克回到了他的本源，重新启动St. 保罗传奇的列克星敦. With its lovingly restored interiors and unpretentious classic cuisine, Chef Jack’s vision for the Lex is: "a working-class supper club, 那种任何人都能去并感到特别的地方."

在餐饮业工作了近40年, 厨师杰克喂, mentored, 与之发生了激烈争吵, and inspired an entire generation of Twin Cities’ food professionals. He was a fixture at charity events such as Share Our Strength’s Taste of the NFL, 《金沙贵宾会线路中心》超级碗周的嘉宾, and winner of numerous competitions from the Twin City Burger Fest to Minnesota Monthly’s Local Chef Challenge. 终身学习者, he spent vacations travelling the world to stage in other kitchens and enjoy fine dining with his wife Kathryne. He amassed a cookbook collection of over 500 volumes, donated to St. 保罗大学.

在他的职业生涯中, Chef Jack credited the education he received at St Paul under Chefs Eberhard Werthmann, 曼弗雷德·克鲁格, 和拉里·费雪. He and his family are delighted to establish this scholarship to help remove barriers to educational access for the next generation of young chefs.

Jack received an honorary Doctorate Degree in Culinary Arts in December 2021 a few days before he passed away. It was made known to him at that time that he was to be the Alum of the Year as well.