Sam Choy

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Sam Choy

Cooking style Pacific rim cuisine
Current Restaurant(s)

Sam Choy is a chef, restaurateur, and television personality known as a founding contributor of "Pacific rim cuisine".[1] Choy is an alumni of the Kapiolani Community College Culinary Arts program.[2] One of his first jobs as a chef was at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. He would then return to Hawaii, where he eventually opened a chain of restaurants.[3]

In 1991, Choy founded the Poke Festival and Recipe Contest.

In 2004, Choy was awarded the James Beard Foundation Award for Sam Choy's Kaloko in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Choy has appeared in several Food TV programs, including Ready.. Set... Cook! and Iron Chef America. He is good friends with Emeril Lagasse[4], who has appeared on Choy's TV show Sam Choy's Kitchen on KHNL. Lagasse has also mentioned Choy by name several times in his TV shows; one of those times he was making Poke on his live TV show, and added peanut butter to the Poke - Choy's secret ingredient. Choy has also very recently designed special Hawaiian inspired dishes for American Airlines first class passengers to and from Hawaii.

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[edit] Publications

  • Sam Choy, U'I Goldsberry, & Steven Goldsberry. (1999). Sam Choy's Island Flavors
  • Sam Choy. (2002). Sam Choy's Polynesian Kitchen: More Than 150 Authentic Dishes from One of the World's Most Delicious and Overlooked Cuisines
  • Sam Choy, Lynn Cook, and Douglas Peebles. (2003). Sam Choy & the Makaha Sons' A Hawaiian Luau.
  • Elizabeth Meahl. (2004). Sam Choy's Little Hawaiian Poke Cookbook

[edit] Restaurants

  • Sam Choy's Diamond Head (Kapahulu)
  • Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch, and Crab (Iwilei)
  • Sam Choy's (Tumon Bay, Guam)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tsai, Michael. "Pacific Rim Cuisine", Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Advertiser, 2006-07-02. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. (English) 
  2. ^ "Sam Choy: Biography", Food Network. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. (English) 
  3. ^ Choy, Sam. "Sam Choy's Island Flavors", Global Gourmet. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. (English) 
  4. ^ "Emeril Live", Food Network, Food Network, 2007-07-06. Retrieved on 2007-09-19. (English) 

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