Fu Pei-mei


Fu Pei-mei was a Taiwanese chef. She wrote over 30 cookbooks on Chinese cuisine and produced and host cooking programs on Taiwan Television and Japan's NHK. In 2012, she was posthumously awarded the special award at the 47th Golden Bell Awards ceremony.
In October 2015, a Google Doodle was dedicated to her.

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.
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. She also wrote over 30 cookbooks in Chinese and English and ran a cooking class.
Fu died in 16 September 2004 of pancreatic cancer.

In popular culture

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.