Meet The Host
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Jean-Paul Bourgeois
Jean-Paul Bourgeois is a Louisiana-born chef, storyteller, and lifelong outdoorsman whose passion for food is rooted in the marshlands that raised him. As the host of Duck Camp Dinners, he brings viewers into the heart of Louisiana’s waterfowl culture, blending his culinary craft with the rituals, characters, and wild places that define duck season.
On Duck Camp Dinners, Jean-Paul leads audiences through backwoods camps and coastal marshes, celebrating generational recipes, local traditions, and the communities that preserve them. With his signature warmth, humor, and down-home expertise, he captures what makes Louisiana food culture unlike anywhere else: the stories, the people, and a whole lot of good eating. Shoot straight and come hungry