:Katsuyo Kobayashi
{{Short description|Japanese celebrity chef}}
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{{nihongo|Katsuyo Kobayashi|小林 カツ代|Kobayashi Katsuyo|October 24, 1937{{Cite news|url=http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2014/01/29/kiji/K20140129007479060.html|script-title=ja:小林カツ代さん死去 長男ケンタロウはリハビリ中|date=January 29, 2014|accessdate=February 9, 2014|newspaper=Sponichi Annex|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203121736/http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2014/01/29/kiji/K20140129007479060.html|archivedate=February 3, 2014}} – January 23, 2014}} was a Japanese celebrity chef, food writer, and founder/leader of the charity "Kagurazaka Women's Choir".{{Cite web |url=http://www.arauchi.jp/kagura/ |accessdate=2014-01-28 |script-title=ja:「神楽坂（かぐらざか）女声合唱団」ってな～に？ |publisher=神楽坂女声合唱団|language=Japanese}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.arauchi.jp/kagura/member.htm |accessdate=2014-01-28 |script-title=ja:神楽坂女声合唱団のメンバー |publisher=神楽坂女声合唱団|language=Japanese}}
Biography
Katsuyo Kobayashi was born in Osaka in 1937. A graduate of Tezukayama Gakuin University, she became a homemaker after marriage. When she got married at the age of 21, she couldn't cook although she was a homemaker.
She started learning how to cook from her mother and neighbors who could cook well. In 1963, initiated by a letter to a TV program, her career as a gourmet scholar started: she got her own TV program at the local television station in Osaka. In 1970, she debuted as an essayist, and published many cookbooks and essays. She appeared on NHK's cooking programs such as “Kyou no Ryouri (Today’s Dinner)” for 26 years and received public attention. She also created household products. Her serving dish “Kiai” was awarded the Good Design Award by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion Organization, which is instituted by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, in 1990. In addition, her English cookbook “The Quick and Easy Japanese Cookbook” was awarded the Best Cookbook in Asia by the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in 2000.
She published nearly 200 cookbooks and essays and she also supported people who are living in the disaster areas of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1995.
In 1994, she participated in the TV cooking contest Iron Chef, winning against Chen Kenichi.
Kobayashi, whose son Kentarō is also a celebrity chef, published more than 200 books.{{Cite web |url=http://hon.gakken.jp/book/1860405500 |accessdate=2014-01-28 |script-title=ja:小林カツ代のおかず入門塾 著者プロフィール |publisher=学研出版サイト|language=Japanese}}
A strong believer in Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, she was one of the founders of Magazine 9.{{cite web|url=http://www.magazine9.jp/about/|title=About|accessdate=February 2, 2014}}
After suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2005, she died on January 23, 2014, of multiple organ failure.{{cite web|url=http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20140129k0000m040029000c.html|script-title=ja:訃報:小林カツ代さん死去７６歳…ＴＶで活躍、料理研究家|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|language=Japanese|accessdate=February 2, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202110655/http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20140129k0000m040029000c.html|archivedate=February 2, 2014}}
References
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External links
- [http://recipe.sp.findfriends.jp/ Katsuyo recipes](smart phone site) {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.daidokoro-marumaru.com/hp/ Katsuyo Kitchen] {{in lang|ja}}
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