Pierre Chambrin (born September 13, 1947) was the White House Executive Chef from 1989 to 1994.
[3] He received his culinary education at the Ecole des Metiers de l'alimentation, which he attended from 1961 to 1963.
[2] In 1979 Chambrin took over the Washington, D.C. restaurant Maison Blanche, located near the White House.
[4] Chambrin was appointed under the presidency of George H. W. Bush to succeed Hans Raffert.
[6] Ruth Reichl defended the chef in an article in the Los Angeles Times, calling him "enthusiastic about just about everything organic, and so excited by the idea of seasonality," and pointing out that it was not the norm for new administrations to appoint a new chef.