  Who
is the man behind the apron?Spicy Steve Sorko is the host of the award winning cable cooking show, Spicy Steve. The highly informative and often zany show highlights the cuisine of Southeast Asia . The original series met with overwhelming audience enthusiasm and Spicy Steve won a Canadian Cable Television Association, Pacific Programmers Award and placed second at the CCTA National Awards. The original series of Spicy Steve was produced by SHAW Cable 4, North Vancouver in 1993 and aired for many years on both SHAW and ROGERS Community Television in British Columbia. In 2000, a new 13 part series of Spicy Steve was filmed and produced by SHAW Television, Abbotsford (at that time ROGERS). This series highlighted the cuisines of Thailand , Malaysia and Singapore and began airing in British Columbia and Eastern Canada in the fall of 2000 through 2002, on SHAW TV, The SHAW Multicultural Channel, and ROGERS Community TV. Spicy Steve Sorko for several years hosted "Spicy Steve's Asian Secrets",
a weekly food feature aired 16 times a week in British Columbia on SHAW
TV 4's "THE EXPRESS". Currently, new segments filmed in Singapore,
Malaysia & Malaysian Borneo in the summer of 2005 are airing as "Spicy
Steve in Singapore" and "Spicy Steve
in Malaysia" . These segments also appear 16 times a week in British
Columbia on SHAW TV 4's "THE EXPRESS".
Spicy Steve Sorko is an authority on Asian cuisine, culture and travel. An accomplished worldwide adventure traveler with endless stories to tell, Steve has crossed the Sahara, hiked the Himalayas and even cage dived with Great White Sharks. He fell in love with Asia in the early eighties and has studied and traveled the region ever since. Even his university education included a healthy dose of Asian Studies. Steve's personal enthusiasm and humour are highly infectious, as was proven over many years as a top lecturer and award winning educator within the Canadian travel industry. Steve worked for many years for two well known Canadian Adventure Travel and Asian Tour Operators and he is also an accomplished travel photojournalist, and writer. His articles and photos have been published overseas in Singapore and within Canada in MacLean's Magazine, Canadian Business, Westworld, PATA Travel News and MLD Canadian Traveller. Spicy Steve, a proud native of North Vancouver , is married to his wonderful Chinese Malaysian wife Tricia, who is also an accomplished cook. "Tasty Trish" acts as Spicy Steve's sous-chef and co-ordinates the shopping and prep of all the dishes demonstrated on TV. They may fight in the kitchen yet their joint efforts create culinary magic. Growing up in an airline family, Steve began both cooking Asian food and traveling at an early age. When back in Asia on holiday, Steve can usually be found in the kitchens of friends and family busy learning new techniques and recipes. He also loves to explore and learn from the "hawkers", or street vendors, as much as he does from professional hotel and restaurant chefs of Asia . The Spicy Steve website, www.spicysteve.com , receives over a million hits a year and Steve still takes the time to answer the hundreds of questions posted on his message board or those e-mailed directly to him from such distances as Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, throughout the US and of course his local fans in Canada. Spicy Steve Sorko has been called "the guru of Southeast Asian cuisine" and he has been written up or contributed to such newspapers as The Vancouver Sun, The Province, The Vancouver Courier, The North Shore News, The North Shore Outlook, The Surrey Now, The Asia Pacific Post, City Food and VIA Destinations magazine. Spicy Steve's many TV appearances include CTV's The Gabereau Show, CTV's The Vancouver Breakfast Show, BCTV's Saturday Morning News and The Noon Hour News, SHAW TV's Urban Rush , and radio appearances on CKNW's Week-end Edition and CBC Radio One's North By Northwest.
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