Ken Hom is an internationally regarded authority on Chinese and Oriental cooking and has 25
years' experience as a television chef. He began his culinary career in his uncle's Chicago
restaurant at the age of eleven before eventually moving on to teach at California's Culinary
Academy. Following a spell studying gastronomy in France Ken presented his first TV series in
1984 - Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery on the BBC. Since then he has written over 30 cookery books
and presented numerous internationally distributed television series and has launched a
massively successful range of woks and accessories with over 7 millions woks sold in 59
countries to date. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University
for 'outstanding success within the international food world' and in 2009 was awarded an
honorary OBE for 'services to the culinary arts' and in recognition of the social and
historical impact of his role in the UK's adoption of Chinese cuisine. He lives in France.
