Ken Hom
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Ken Hom OBE (born May 3, 1949) is a Chinese-American chef, author, and television show host for the BBC.
He was appointed Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009 for "services to culinary arts."
Early life
Hom was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Taishanese parents. Since his father died when Hom was eight months old, he was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his widowed mother, Ying Fong. Hom first learned to cook at the age of eleven when he was working in his uncle's Chinese restaurant. He went to Berkeley, California, to study History of Art.
He taught Italian cooking lessons at weekends to supplement his college tuition during this time. He then began to teach Chinese cookery classes. In 1977, he was invited to teach San Francisco's new California Culinary Academy.
TV career
The BBC selected him for a Chinese cookery show in 1982, following a two-year global hunt. Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery, the resulting television series, had a companion book published by BBC Books.
He has since appeared in a number of prime time BBC TV shows. Noodle Road, his television series, is a five-hour documentary about the noodle's past. It has been exported to 23 countries and received the Peabody award in 2009. Ching He Huang co-starred on BBC show Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure in 2012. On the BBC's long-running weekly show Saturday Kitchen with Huang, he has made some of his appearances.