Fu Pei-mei

Fu Pei-mei (Chinese: 傅培梅; pinyin: Fù Péiméi; 1931 – 16 September 2004) was a Taiwanese chef. She wrote over 30 cookbooks on Chinese cuisine[1] and produced and host cooking programs on Taiwan Television (Only in intro on tv as title: Popcorn (instrumental) was used.) and Japan's NHK.[2] In 2012, she was posthumously awarded the special award at the 47th Golden Bell Awards ceremony.

Fu Pei-mei
傅培梅
Bornc. 1931
Dalian, China
DiedSeptember 16, 2004 (aged 72–73)
Taipei, Taiwan
OccupationChef
Years active1962–2000

In October 2015, a Google Doodle was dedicated to her.[3]

Biography

Fu was born in 1931 in Dalian, northeast China, under Japanese rule at the time. She moved to Taiwan when she was 18 after the communists took all of the mainland's control following the end of the civil war as the nationalists fled to Taiwan. Before becoming a cook, she worked in a trading company and appeared in television commercials promoting electrical appliances.[2]

During forty years, from 1962 to 2002 Fu hosted a series of cooking programs at Taiwan Television, presenting over 4000 Chinese cuisine dishes. Her programs were exported to Japan, the United States, the Philippines and other Asian countries.[2] She also wrote over 30 cookbooks in Chinese and English and ran a cooking class.

Fu died in 16 September 2004 of pancreatic cancer.[2]

A mini-series was made about Fu's life titled "What She Put on the Table", and it aired in Taiwan during the summer of 2017. It was available globally starting in the fall of 2018 through the online streaming platform, Netflix.[4][5]

References
  1. Islands Magazine. April 1999.
  2. "Legend of Chinese cooking dies at 73 - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  3. "Pei Mei Fu's 84th Birthday". www.google.com. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  4. (Taiwan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (2017-08-02). "Four Taiwan TV series made available globally on Netflix - Taiwan Today". Taiwan Today. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  5. "What She Put on the Table | Netflix". www.netflix.com. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
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