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Ching He Huang
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Ching He Huang
EducationQueen Mary, University of London, Bocconi Business School
Culinary career
Cooking styleChinese cuisine, Taiwanese cuisine, British Chinese
Television show(s)
  • BBC TWO/BBC HD/BBC ONE-Chinese food made easy,Great Food Live-UKTV,Great Food Bites-UKTV,Ching's Kitchen-UKTV/BBC Lifestyle,Taste-Sky One,Saturday Kitchen-BBC ONE/BBC TWO, CBBC Exchange-CBBC,Saturday Cooks-ITV 1,Daily Cooks-ITV 1,Christmas Cooks-ITV 1,Market Kitchen-UKTV,Cooking the book-Channel Five,Grand Designs Live-Channel 4,Ready Steady Cook-BBC TWO
Websitehttp://www.chinghehuang.com

Ching-He Huang (黃瀞億) (born 1978 in Taiwan) is a food writer, food entrepreneur and TV chef who has appeared in a variety of television cooking shows.

Early life

Although born in Taiwan, Huang spent most of her early childhood in South Africa before her parents moved to London, England when she was 11 years old[1]. Educated at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and Bocconi Business School in Milan, Huang graduated with a first class economics degree[2] and set up her own food businesses, Fuge Ltd[3]and TZU[4].[5].

Cooking

Ching often reinvents favourite Chinese dishes, modernizing them with fresh, easy to buy ingredients and offers simple practical tips and techniques[6][7]. Her dynamic,approachable and versatile style appealed to a young cosmopolitan yet urban sophisticated market and her TV shows[8] and books are very successful[9]. Much of the fresh produce she uses in her cookery are grown or made locally in the UK, for example chillies from Chorley[10], Tofu from Melton Mowbray[11], soy sauce from Wales and pak choi from Preston[12].

Broadcasting career

Ching is also known for her cookery programmes, her first being Ching's Kitchen, which was first shown on UKTV Food in 2005. Other television appearances followed including Daily Cooks, Saturday Cooks and Great Food Live. Huang has also appeared on BBC Saturday Kitchen with James Martin, UK Food Market Kitchen as well as guest appearances on Ready Steady Cook, Cooking the Books and cooked live for Melanie Sykes on Grand Designs Live. She also appears as a regular guest on Sky Television food show Taste, hosted by Beverly Turner.

The Chinese Food Made Easy television series has been licensed into New Zealand, Germany, Iceland, Poland and Australia and has been picked up by BBC’s Lifestyle channel for all its Asian feeds, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea.[13]

In 2010, Huang will front a new thirteen part cookery series on Five. The series Chinese Food in Minutes is based on Huang’s title of the same name, published by HarperCollins in September 2009. It includes a branded microsite with video, recipes, episode guides and competitions, plus additional exclusive content websites.[14]

Publications

In 2006 she published her first recipe book, China Modern, which contained a variety of Chinese influenced recipes. In China Modern Ching-He Huang explores new influences and challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese food. She looks at how dishes have been reinvented, drawing on inspiration from Japan, Thailand and Vietnam as well as Europe. Modern Chinese food opens up to the West as well as the rest of the East, its culinary traditions have evolved to create a new and exciting cuisine that can best be described as fusion.

In 2008, she published a second recipe book to accompany a 6-part peak time television series Chinese Food Made Easy[15], commissioned and shown by BBC Two and BBC HD[16]. Chinese Food Made Easy aired in June 2008 and was an instant success, attracting millions of viewers[17]. Her book, also called Chinese Food Made Easy [18], was published alongside the series and was a number 1 bestseller for six weeks. The recipes from the TV series are included in eight chapters, ranging from Takeaway Favourites, Spicy Sichuan dishes, and Dumplings, Dim Sum and Noodles to Fish and Seafood dishes, Street Food, Celebration Food, Desserts and Drinks and Side dishes. Throughout the book there are cooking tips and basic techniques. Ching shares her passion not only for Chinese food but also for Chinese culture. It went on to sell 124,000 copies, value sales of £1.2m and was the fifth bestselling cookbook of 2008.[19].

Ching has signed a new deal with Harper Collins and her third book, Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes, was published on 3 September 2009.[20].

Other writing

Huang has also written for several food magazines such as Olive[21], BBC Good Food and Delicious[22].

Awards

Chinese Food Made Easy won the award for Second Best Chinese cuisine book in the world at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2009.[23]

Personal life

Ching lives with her partner, actor Jamie Cho, who is half Chinese in Cricklewood, North London[24].

Published Works

China Modern (Kyle Cathie, 2006) ISBN 9781856266734

Chinese Food Made Easy (HarperCollins, 2008) ISBN 9780007264988

Ching's Chinese Food in Minutes (HarperCollins, 2009) ISBN 9780007265008

Ching's Chinese Food Made Easy Paperback (HarperCollins, April 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-726499-5

References

  1. ^ UKTV Food: Chefs: Ching He-Huang
  2. ^ Biography: Ching He Huang's Official Website
  3. ^ Welcome To Fuge Ltd: Fuge Ltd
  4. ^ Official TZU UK Ltd Website
  5. ^ I WOK TO LIVE mirror.co.uk
  6. ^ Taste of China Evening Standard
  7. ^ Wok on! Daily Mail
  8. ^ TV ratings The Guardian
  9. ^ Facts made easy The Economist
  10. ^ Markets To Star On Television Chorley Borough Council
  11. ^ BBC TWO-Chinese food made easy-Tofu making in the UK YouTube
  12. ^ Table Talk The Guardian
  13. ^ Chinese Food Made Easy Lion Television Production Information
  14. ^ Five gets saucy with Huang thebookseller.com
  15. ^ Official Harper Collins UK Website
  16. ^ BBC HD Teaser
  17. ^ Interviews: Ching-He Huang Radio 86
  18. ^ Mostly Food Journal
  19. ^ Authors of the year 2008 The Bookseller
  20. ^ Official Harper Collins UK Website
  21. ^ Olive - Meal of fortune iVillage
  22. ^ Ching He Huang at Delicious magazine
  23. ^ Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
  24. ^ Be a wok star Manchester Evening News
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