Felipe Rojas-Lombardi (died September 10, 1991) was a Peruvian-American chef whose Spanish and Caribbean influences have impacted America's haute cuisine.
[1] An assistant to James Beard's Greenwich Village cooking school,[2] he was the founding chef of Dean & Deluca gourmet food store.
He was featured on a PBS series on “New York’s Master Chefs” and is credited with bringing the concept of tapas to America.
Rojas-Lombardi died of heart failure in New York City on September 10, 1991.
In 2014, the United States Postal Service honored him with a Celebrity Chefs stamp.