Ken Hom Biography
Ken Hom is a Chinese-American chef, author, and BBC television show host who specializes in Chinese cuisine. He was made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2009 for “services to the culinary arts.”
How Old is Ken Hom? – Age
He is 72 years old as of 3 May 2021. He is in 1949 in Tucson, Arizona, United States.
Ken Hom Family – Education
Hom’s widowed mother raised him after his father died when he was eight months old. Hom began learning to cook at the age of eleven while working in his uncle’s Chinese restaurant. He moved to California to pursue a degree in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Who is Ken Hom partner? – Wife
Ken is unmarried and without children.
Ken Hom Net Worth
Ken has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Ken Hom House
His home is a property in south-west France that he purchased in the early 1990s for £70,000. Now that he’s renovated the interior, it’s probably worth £250,000.
Does Ken Hom have a Restaurant?
Hom began learning to cook at the age of eleven while working in his uncle’s Chinese restaurant. He has served as a consultant for hotels and restaurants, as well as personally cooking for presidents, celebrities, and royalty.
Ken Hom Cancer
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2010 and underwent proton radiation therapy in Japan. The cancer was successfully treated, and he is now an ambassador for Prostate Cancer UK (formerly The Prostate Cancer Charity), raising awareness about cancer detection and treatment.
Ken Hom Career
During this time, he supplemented his college expenses by teaching Italian cooking classes on weekends. As a result, he began teaching Chinese cooking classes. In 1977, he was invited to become an instructor at San Francisco’s new California Culinary Academy. The BBC auditioned him for a Chinese cookery series in 1982, after a two-year global search. Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery, the resulting TV series, was accompanied by a companion book published by BBC Books.
Since then, he’s appeared in a number of prime-time BBC TV shows. His KBS series, a five-hour documentary on the history of the noodle, sold in 23 countries and was nominated for a Peabody award in 2010. He co-hosted the BBC series Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure with Ching He Huang in 2012. He has appeared on the BBC’s long-running weekly show Saturday Kitchen with her on several occasions. Hom has been an ambassador for Action Against Hunger since 2008, a humanitarian organization that works in over 40 countries to help families feed their children and build a sustainable life.