Jean-Marie Josselin is a renowned chef who was one of the pioneers of

Hawaii regional cuisine The cuisine of Hawaii incorporates five distinct styles of food, reflecting the diverse food history of settlement and immigration in the Hawaiian Islands. In the pre-contact period of Ancient Hawaii (300 AD-1778), Polynesian voyagers brough ...

. He authored ''A Taste of Hawaii''.

Early life

Josselin was born in

Chamonix, France Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had ...

. 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.

Career

He began working in

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, Missouri in 1982, then moved from restaurant to restaurant. Josselin moved to Hawaii and began making food that fused the cuisines of Hawaii's many ethnic groups in 1985. In 1990 Josselin opened a restaurant in

Kapaa Kapaa (Kauai dialect: Tapaa) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. It is the most populous town in the island of Kauai, with a population of 11,652 as of the 2020 census, up from ...

, Kauai. He opened several other restaurants, then suddenly sold all of his restaurants and went on hiatus. By 2015, he had opened three restaurants in Kauai and a restaurant in

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