Executive Chef Adam Lambay is Grand Prize Winner in National Competition
St. Louis, MO—June 3, 2022—Adding to the national accolades bestowed on St. Louis chefs and restaurants, the Nine PBS Create channel, the premier lifestyle channel featuring public television’s most popular how-to series on food, travel, home and garden, arts and crafts, and more, announced that Adam Lambay of St. Louis was selected as the winner of a nationwide cooking challenge. Nine PBS Create airs 24/7 on channel 9.4 and on Spectrum 184.
He wowed the judges, who are some of public television’s best-known chefs, with his dad’s “moka with pupper” entry, described by Lambay as “scrambled eggs with an Indian twist.” As the grand prize winner of Create Cooking Challenge: My Family’s Recipe, he will receive funding and production equipment to finance and produce a 10-episode web series scheduled to launch this fall.
Lambay is committed to focusing his web series on “Indian-inspired” recipes representing a sort of “fusion with recipes that are more familiar to the standard diner.” He says they will not be overly “hot,” but instead will make use of spices and aromatics to make each dish more accessible to the average home cook.
A native of St. Louis, Lambay is executive chef at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark, with a storied resume of positions at high-end restaurants throughout Greater St. Louis and the surrounding area. He is a busy husband and father to two children. His family has lived in the St. Louis community for more than 50 years.
His father’s brothers first emigrated from the family home located in a fishing village near Mumbai, India. Adam’s dad soon followed, where he met and married Adam’s mother, the granddaughter of first-generation German immigrants. Lambay’s great-grandparents arrived in St. Louis between World Wars I and II and opened a successful bakery in downtown St. Louis. At home, Lambay’s dad cooked recipes based on his Indian upbringing, while his maternal grandmother prepared family recipes based on her German heritage.
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Now in its 17th year, Create® is the premier lifestyle channel featuring public television’s most popular how-to series, focused on food, travel, home and garden, arts and crafts, fitness, and lifestyle. Create is produced and distributed by American Public Television (APT); The WNET Group (New York); and GBH Boston, in association with National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and PBS. Create TV is carried by 241 local public television stations nationwide and is seen in 21 of the top 25 U.S. television markets. Create’s companion website CreateTV.com features extensive video, the Create TV schedule, program, and host information.
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