[citation needed] Jean-Pierre Coffe spent a major part of his childhood in the town where he was born, Lunéville.

He then joined the French public channel where he hosted a cooking program with children titled Comment c'est fait ?

In 2003, he joined Michel Drucker on France 2 where he served as a food critic in the program Vivement dimanche prochain.

In September 1990 he joined the team of Les Grosses Têtes, a radio program hosted by Philippe Bouvard on RTL, for which he became a regular participant.

At the end of the show on June 21, 2008, he announced his forced retirement by France Inter management.