KEN HOM’S NOODLE ROAD WINS PEABODY AWARD
The acclaimed KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) documentary series ‘Noodle Road’, presented by celebrity chef Ken Hom, has been awarded the prestigious Peabody Award 2010.
These annual, international awards for ‘excellence in radio and television broadcasting’ first conceived in 1941, are one of the oldest honours in electronic media.
The five-hour documentary follows the journey that illustrates how the noodle, with its 2500 year history, was adopted by both Eastern and Western parts of the world and adapted to suit different diets – noodle in Asia, pasta in Europe.
Over the course of two years, the documentary was filmed in eight different countries from the depth of inner China to Butan, Turkey and Italy.
Ken Hom talks about the cultural exchange between East and West through the food and introduces the viewers to the variety of noodle dishes around the world.
In 2009, ‘Noodle Road’ won the Korean Broadcasting Award – the first time that a non-fiction programme received an award for its contribution to Asian food culture, viewed through the history of noodle dishes. It also won the celebrated ABU (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) Award, for the Best Television Documentary in the same year.
Commenting on the award-winning documentary, Ken Hom said:
“Noodles are so much part of my own culture. I grew up eating them every day and also cooking them in my uncle’s restaurant, yet I discovered some fascinating facts during the making of this documentary series.
This is certainly a new style of documentary as you have never tasted before!”
Lambdin Kay, public-service director for WSB radio in Atlanta, Georgia in 1941, is credited with creating the award, named after businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, who donated the funds that made the awards possible.
They are administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia (UGA). Originally only for radio, in 1948 the television awards were introduced to the programme.
In the late 1990s additional categories for material distributed via the World Wide Web were added.
Ken Hom has written twenty three books on Asian cookery and was recently awarded an OBE for ‘services to culinary arts’.
His name is also firmly associated with the Wok – the curved pan and key utensil for all Chinese cooking – which he designs and sells in a variety of shapes and sizes on his website.
Noodle Road has been sold to twelve overseas stations and has been aired in fourty countries, previews for these are available on youtube.com.
To visit the website click here to find out more about Ken Hom.
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