Peter Clark Kump (October 22, 1937 – June 7, 1995) was an American figure in the culinary arts.
[1][2] The founder of Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, he also co-founded the James Beard Foundation with Julia Child.
After 5 years he left to attend Carnegie Mellon University where, after taking the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Class, was asked by Ms Wood to be on her teaching staff teaching speed reading in Pittsburgh and to members of President Richard M. Nixon's staff in the mid-1960s.
[6] A few days before his death, Kump sold the school to Rick Smilow who then moved it to 23rd Street, opening a few months later.
[6] He died June 8, 1995, at his home in East Hampton, Long Island of liver cancer.