Kylie Kwong

About two months ago I was surfing through the channels and caught the tail end of a show featuring a woman chef. She was Australian and the show was filmed there. The style of the show is rather quick cut single camera a bit like Nigella Lawson but souped up a bit. I loved her style, her throw a bit of this and a bit of that in a pan with great background info on each dish and how it would be done traditionally versus the modifications she was making. A few weeks later, I caught her again but still hadn't figured out her name. Finally last month's Olive magazine gave me the answer.

Her name is Kylie Kwong and she has a new cookbook out called Heart and Soul. A quote from the blurb;

'Australian-Chinese chef Kwong is well known in Australia, where this book was published to accompany her popular TV series. Authentic Chinese recipes are mixed with European and North African; some are easy, others more complex using a wide range of ingredients.'

I'm hoping to find her cookbook over at NE Mobile Bookfair and road test some recipes and I really hope Food TV finds her and runs the series. It would make a nice change form the bland rotation they have on lately.

Comments

[Jennifer]

Kylie is a great cook! Her mixture of Asian and Australian cuisine is always wonderful and I agree; she gives great insight to her ingredients, dishes and family in her show and her cookbook. And I love her kitchen...simply gorgeous!

[Monica]

I love her! Her site is great too. Try her duck is not very hard to do and it's to die for!

[Chef Caine]

Youhope FoodTV finds her and picks up the series? Is that supposed to be a joke? FoodTV doesn't do cooking shows any more. She would have to totally desecrate food preparation, run all over the world finding strange recipes, or have some kind of a contest, in order for FoodTV to broadcast her show. Her best bet would be PBS, but even then, all PBS stations don;t pick up all the shows. I get 3 PBS stations in Southern CAlifornia and I still can;t watch Karen MacNeil's Wine, Food, and Friends.

[Tanya]

Hi:

There is a good chance FoodTV in the US will carry her show because FoodTV Canada has carried her show for quite a long time now. She actually has a new show called Kylie Kwong: Simply Magic - I really like it.

[Berenika]

Kylie have such a passion for cooking that doing her show you just want to get up and start cooking (as you get hungry watching her cooking). I just wish that her show can be little longer then 1/2 hour in Canada.

[scrumdiddly]

kylie is such a doll..I love her cooking..and I love HER too.... be still my heart

[Reeta]

can u gimme the xact link from where i can view the show? i know its on food tv but yest wen i was trying to watch it, it didnt work... it was giving written recipes instead :(

[anam afsar khan]

kylie kwong is a very famous chef and she is very good chef.