Listen: Chef/Author Martin Yan World-renowned celebrity chef Martin Yan donated his collection of nearly 3,000 cookbooks, his first wok, thousands of photographs and other media to an archive to be established in his name at the University of California, Davis.
World-renowned celebrity chef Martin Yan’s collection of nearly 3,000 cookbooks, his first wok, thousands of photographs and other media will be the main ingredients in an archive to be established in his name at the University of California, Davis. Yan and his wife, Susan, both UC Davis graduates, recently gifted the items and funds to create the Chef Martin Yan Legacy Archive in the UC Davis Library Archives and Special Collections.