Tommy Tang
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Tommy Tang is a Thai
-born chef and television personality well-known for his PBS series of cooking shows.
Born in Bangkok, Tang was the eldest son in a family of 12 children. Leaving school at eleven to help support his family, Tang held a succession of jobs that included a floor-fan cleaner, welder, construction worker, busboy, wheelbarrow maker, boxer, auto mechanic, tennis teacher and drummer. During that time, Tang learned to cook alongside his father in the family restaurant in Bangkok's Grand Central.
After emigrating to the U.S., Tang took a day job as chef and manager at a small Thai restaurant in Hollywood. In 1982 Tang opened his own restaurant in the Melrose Avenue section of West Hollywood. Four years later Tang opened a companion restaurant in New York City.
Today Tang produces a highly regarded Cooking & Travel Series for PBS, with almost 200 shows since 1994.
Tommy's 1st cookbook, Modern Thai Cuisine, was released in 1991. It was largely hailed as being the book that "demystified" the art of preparing Modern Thai Cuisine and eventually went into 8 printings. His 2nd cook book, Noodles & Rice and Something Nice was equally successful.
He also continues to oversee the Tsunami Children’s Foundation he founded in 2005.
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
-born chef and television personality well-known for his PBS series of cooking shows.
Born in Bangkok, Tang was the eldest son in a family of 12 children. Leaving school at eleven to help support his family, Tang held a succession of jobs that included a floor-fan cleaner, welder, construction worker, busboy, wheelbarrow maker, boxer, auto mechanic, tennis teacher and drummer. During that time, Tang learned to cook alongside his father in the family restaurant in Bangkok's Grand Central.
After emigrating to the U.S., Tang took a day job as chef and manager at a small Thai restaurant in Hollywood. In 1982 Tang opened his own restaurant in the Melrose Avenue section of West Hollywood. Four years later Tang opened a companion restaurant in New York City.
Today Tang produces a highly regarded Cooking & Travel Series for PBS, with almost 200 shows since 1994.
Tommy's 1st cookbook, Modern Thai Cuisine, was released in 1991. It was largely hailed as being the book that "demystified" the art of preparing Modern Thai Cuisine and eventually went into 8 printings. His 2nd cook book, Noodles & Rice and Something Nice was equally successful.
He also continues to oversee the Tsunami Children’s Foundation he founded in 2005.
External links
- http://www.tsunamicf.org| Tsunami Children's Foundation