Andrew Chase's Culinary Journey in Taiwan

Renowned food editor of Homemakers/Canadian Living magazine, Andrew Chase will have a cooking session to share his recipes of Taiwanese cuisine with the public.

Started with his love for Chinese food and enthusiasm to study spoken Chinese ago, Andrew arrived in Taiwan 20 years ago. He made close friendships with a diverse group of people, from university graduate students to manual labuorers, from mainland Peking opera fanatics to rural Taiwanese farmers. All along the way, he learned about Taiwanese and regional Chinese cooking, spending hours in the home kitchens of wonderfully good cooks and eating at every restaurant and food stall.

Andrew Chase began cooking as a child, and with an exceptional mentor: Charles Banino, executive chef of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Paris and Boston, who was a frequent visitor in his parents’ home. Today Andrew’s kitchen philosophy is the passionate – but exquisitely simple – credo of a true food and wine lover. In Homemakers and Canadian Living magazines, Andrew strives to offer readers those fresh ideas through accessible but sophisticated internationally-inspired recipes. His goal for readers is healthy and well-rounded eating, but he also hopes to inspire them to try new ingredients, new techniques and new flavours.