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CHEF Gastón Acurio

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Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (born October 30, 1967) is a Peruvian chef and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine. He is the owner of restaurants in several countries and is the author of several books. In Peru he is the host of his own television program and contributes to a few magazines.

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Gastón Acurio Jaramillo is the only son of Gastón Acurio Velarde, a career politician with Acción Popular party and Senator in the 1980s, and Jesusa Jaramillo Razuri. He has four older sisters. Acurio studied law (expecting to succeed his father in a political career) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He studied cooking at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, where he met his future wife Astrid Gutsche, originally from Germany.

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In 1994, he returned to Peru with knowledge of international cuisine and applied it in a gourmet level to Peruvian cuisine, contributing to the development of the so-called Cocina Novoandina. Acurio is currently recognized as one of the most important chefs in the world.

 

He has two daughters with his wife Astrid: Ivalú and Kiara.