Theresa Lin Cheng
Complimented as “The Julia child
of Taiwan” by Director Ang Lee of
Eat Drink Man Woman, Theresa Lin was
born in Tainan, Taiwan, and graduated
from Fu-Jen Catholic University.
She is broadly popular throughout
the worldwide Chinese community as
the author of 16 seminal cookbooks
in Chinese, which are distributed
generally throughout Asia and in Chinese-language
bookstores around the world.
Her popularity became fame through
her role as the executive food designer
of the hit film Eat Drink Man Woman,
which won an Oscar nomination as Best
Foreign Film.
As the organizer of the Taipei food
Festival for the Taiwan Tourism Bureau
for 11 years, she was exposed to and
became a friend of the greatest Chinese
chefs of the world.
For many years a government-licensed
chef herself, she taught cooking to
potential chefs in government programs,
won cooking competitions internationally
(including 1st place in the cooking
contest sponsored by Australian Meat
and Livestock Corporation), and has
been a well-known judge of cooking
contests.
She moved to star billing as Hostess,
food and cooking demonstrator, and
food critic in television programs
broadcast by Chinese-language stations
around the world. Among these programs
were “Good Morning, Taipei,” “Funny
Mother,” and the internationally-popular
“The Gourmet World.”
She is frequently invited abroad
to demonstrate Chinese Cooking Art
in many venues, including the Cannes
Film Festival, the Academy Awards
in Los Angeles, and I.T.B. Berlin,
and is consecutively invited for three
years to demonstrate in the Philadelphia
Food Festival “The Book and The Cook,”
in which she has won popular acclaim.
She has been retained as a food consultant
for dozens of gourmet Chinese restaurants
and food companies around the world,
and her advice is invaluable in establishing
menus that appeal to the discerning
fanciers of fine foods, Chinese and
international.
Now she has adopted a new course,
which makes those knowledgeable in
the field of Chinese gourmet cuisine
open their eyes in excitement. She
has committed to act as the spokesperson,
in both Asia and in the United States,
for Royal Star at the Venetian, created
as America’s finest Hong Kong style
Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas. Now
she has taken the extraordinary step
of becoming herself one of the restaurant’s
major owners and has agreed to serve
as its consultant. In that role, she
gives the benefit of her vast knowledge
to the kitchen and menu planning in
cooperation with its two great executive
chefs. She is directly involved to
ensure that her goal will be reached—that
Royal Star at the Venetian becomes
recognized as one of the truly great
Chinese restaurants in the world—and
actually, Royal Star has won the Best
Chinese Restaurant Award in both years
2000 and 2001.
She is recently hosting talk shows
“Eat Drink Man Woman” (weekly) and
“What’s Cooking” (daily) at KAZN AM
1300 radio station in Los Angeles,
California. In addition, she also
hosts a cooking demonstration program
on Power TV Cable Channel, Local TV
Channel 18, and HK Jade Channel (TVB).
|
