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Having already appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009 for “services to culinary arts”, he was further appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2022.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]TV career[edit]Charity[edit]Awards and honours[edit]Business interests[edit]Television[edit]References[edit]General references[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Hom was born in Tucson, Arizona, to Taishanese parents.[1] He was raised in Chicago, Illinois, by his widowed mother, Ying Fong, after his father died when Hom was eight months old.[2] Hom first learned cooking at the age of eleven when he worked in his uncle’s Chinese restaurant.[3] He went to California to study History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.During this time he taught Italian cooking lessons at weekends to supplement his college fees. This led him on to teach Chinese cookery classes. In 1977 he was invited to join San Francisco’s new California Culinary Academy as an instructor.TV career[edit]In 1982, after a 2-year global search, the BBC auditioned him for a Chinese cookery series.[4] The resulting TV series, Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery, had a companion book published by BBC Books.He has since appeared in a number of prime time BBC TV series. His series for KBS called Noodle Road is a five-hour documentary on the history of the noodle. It sold in 23 countries and won the Peabody award in 2009.[5] In 2012 he co-presented the BBC series Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure with Ching He Huang. He has made some of his many appearances on the BBC’s long-running weekly show Saturday Kitchen with Huang.Charity[edit]Since 2008, Hom has been an ambassador for Action Against Hunger, a humanitarian charity which works in over 40 countries helping families to feed their children and build a sustainable life.  In 2010, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had proton radiation therapy in Japan. The cancer was successfully treated and he is now an ambassador for Prostate Cancer UK (formerly known as The Prostate Cancer Charity), building awareness for the early detection and treatment of cancers.Awards and honours[edit]Inducted in the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America as recognition of significant and lasting achievement in the culinary industry, 1990Honorary Chairperson of The Institute for the Advancement of the Science & Art of Chinese Cuisine, 1993Honorary Member of the 48 Group Club, 2002Appointed Founding Patron of Oxford Gastronomica: the Centre for Food, Drink and Culture, 2007Honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University for outstanding success within the international food world, 2007Grand Prize Winner Documentary – ABU Awards, 2009Grand Prize Winner – Korea’s Producer Award for “Noodle Road”, 2009Appointed Founding Patron of the Oxford Cultural Collective, 2017Awarded Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the culinary arts, 2009“Noodle Road” nominated for best TV documentary of New York Film Festival, 2010Honorary Member of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, 2010Peabody Award for “Noodle Road” TV documentary series for KBS, 2010Food Broadcast of the Year Award 2013 for “Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure” with Ching He Huang Guild of Food Writers AwardsAwarded Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to charity, culinary arts and education, 2022In Ken Hom’s name:Annual Ken Hom Lecture series at Oxford Brookes UniversityKen Hom Writer in Residence Fellowship at Oxford Brookes UniversityThe Ken Hom Collection at the Oxford Brookes UniversityBook awards:“Ken Hom\u2019s East Meets West Cuisine” (Macmillan, 1987) Shortlisted for Andre Simon Memorial Book of Year“Easy Family Dishes: A Memoir with Recipes” (BBC Books, 1998) Winner of the Andre Simon Memorial Book of Year“The Taste of China” (Pavilion Books, 1990) Shortlisted for Andre Simon Memorial Book of Year“Ken Hom\u2019s Quick Wok” (Headline Books, 2001) Cookbook of the Year from Food and  Wine magazine, USA“Truffes” with Pierre-Jean P\u00e9beyre  (Hachette, 2001) Shortlisted for Prix Litteraire de la Gastronomie Antonin Careme“Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure” (with Ching He Huang) (2012) Gourmand International Awards 2013,  Paris Cookbook Fair \u2013 \u2018Best in the World\u2019 award for the Culinary Travel Category. Short listed for The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2013 for both the Food Broadcast of the Year Award and the Award for Work on Food and Travel“Truffles with Pierre-Jean P\u00e9beyre (Serindia 2014) Winner Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2015 for Best Mushrooms (USA)The Best25 (25 years of cookbooks) The Gourmand Awards: Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure By Ken Hom & Ching He Huang 2021 in at Paris Cookbook FairBusiness interests[edit]Since 1986 Hom has had a base in Paris. In 1997 he settled permanently in south west France in a restored 13th century tower in Lot. Hom has also spent more time in his adopted home of Thailand since 2003.Hom is an author of more than 20 cookery books. Alongside his best known work on Chinese cuisine, his works also include topics on Cambodian, Malaysian, Thai, Singaporean, and Vietnamese cooking. He has worked as a consultant for hotels and restaurants and cooked personally for presidents, celebrities and royalty.In 2009, Hom entered into an exclusive agreement with British supermarket chain Tesco to launch a 32-product range of Ken Hom branded Chinese ready meals.[6]Despite semi-retirement, he continues to travel extensively worldwide and divides his time between France and Bangkok.Television[edit]Ken Hom\u2019s Chinese Cookery (1984)Hot Chefs (1992)Ken Hom\u2019s Hot Wok (1996)Ken Hom\u2019s Travels with a Hot Wok (1998)Foolproof Chinese Cookery (2000)Take on the Takeaway (2007)Noodle Road (KBS) (2008)Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure (with Ching He Huang) (2012)Hom, Ken (1989). Fragrant Harbor Taste: the new Chinese cooking of Hong Kong. Simon & Schuster. ISBN\u00a00-671-64469-6.Hom, Ken (2001). Truffes. Hachette. 978-2-0123-6629-9.References[edit]General references[edit]Davies, H (2006-12-03). “Hom and away”. The Times. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Frith Powell, H (2004-09-19). “French dressing”. The Times. Retrieved 2007-10-07.“Chef biogs: Ken Hom”. Food. BBC. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Fletcher, S (2001-10-14). “Desert island dish”. The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Clark, A (2001-04-14). “Wok coup”. The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Crace, J (2000-11-26). “My inspiration”. The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Millar, S (1999-03-16). “TV chef attacks Britain’s mass-produced diet and urges conversion to ‘nutritious’ oriental food culture”. The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-10-07.McCurrach, I (2007-04-08). “Tasting places: Ken Hom on the countries he savours most”. The Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved 2007-10-07.“Ken Hom To Be Awarded With Honorary Doctorate”. Food and Drink. Easier. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Sheldrick, G (2007-09-09). “Honorary survivor”. Oxford Mail. Retrieved 2007-10-07.“Past winners of the Andre Simon Memorial Fund Awards”. Andre Simon Memorial Fund. Easier. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2007-10-07.Nacheva, V (2001-05-17). “Woking up funds for charities”. Sofia News. Retrieved 2007-10-07.External links[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ken Hom.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/ken-hom-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Ken Hom – Wikipedia"}}]}]