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Hannah Che
View on WikipediaHannah Che is an American plant-based/vegan chef, cookbook author, and food writer. Her cookbook, The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, won the 2023 James Beard Foundation Award.
Key Information
Early life and education
[edit]Che was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan,[1] to immigrant parents from China.[2][3] When she was 9, her father's work took them to Shenzhen, China for three years before returning to the United States.[3] She trained as a pianist at Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, receiving both a B.M. and M.M.[1]
Career
[edit]Che states that after reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, she "chose to shift to plant-based eating for health, environmental, and ethical reasons."[4] She then began to study "other culinary traditions, like plant-based Thai and Mediterranean cuisine."[4] She states that she learned that "plant-based eating is a long-standing tradition in Chinese cuisine."[4][5]
She studied vegetarian cooking at the Guangzhou Vegetarian Culinary School in China,[6] and created the recipe blog, "The Plant-Based Wok."[7] She worked as a cook in American Michelin-starred restaurants, was a wok chef at Din Tai Fung, and developed "a vegan Chinese tasting menu pop-up called Surong" in Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Dali, Yunnan, China.[6]
Book
[edit]The New York Times and The Washington Post named her first cookbook, The Vegan Chinese Kitchen (2022), one of the Best Cookbooks of 2022,[8][9] and the Food Network listed it as one of the “10 Best New Vegan Cookbooks” for 2023.[10] VegNews listed it as one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024.[11]
It won the 2023 James Beard Foundation Award[12] and 2023 International Association of Culinary Professionals Julia Child First Book Award.[13]
Awards and honors
[edit]Cookbook
[edit]- The Vegan Chinese Kitchen. Clarkson Potter, 2022. ISBN 978-0593139707.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Che, Hannah. "Biography". Hannahche.com. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Mok, Charmaine (October 9, 2022). "'This was my heritage I'd underappreciated': vegan Chinese cookbook author Hannah Che on an epiphany in China". South China Morning Post. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ a b "Hananh Che: Our Cover Girl Was Nominated for a James Beard Award". Elite Gen Magazine. April 27, 2023. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ a b c Roy, Paula (September 30, 2022). "A fresh look at traditional Chinese cuisine". Ottawa At Home. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
- ^ Yam, Genevieve (September 12, 2022). "This Vegan Cookbook Celebrates Chinese Home Cooking". Epicurious. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
- ^ a b Che, Hannah. "about". theplantbasedwok.com. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Puckett, Susan (October 5, 2022). "Cookbook review: Plant-based dishes inspired by Buddhist traditions". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
- ^ "The Best Cookbooks of 2022". The New York Times. December 12, 2022. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ "Our Favorite Cookbooks of 2022". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Khoury-Hanold, Layla (2023-01-03). "10 Best New Vegan Cookbooks". Food Network. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ Pointing, Charlotte (January 10, 2024). "The Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time". VegNews. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
- ^ a b "James Beard Awards: Hannah Che". James Beard Foundation Award. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ a b Hecht, Lisa. "2023 IACP Awards Winners". IACP. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Hannah Che’s Vegan Chinese Recipes Modernize a 1,000-Year-Old Tradition-Sunset Magazine
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