Martin Yan Autographs
Martin Yan (Chinese: 甄文達; born 22 December 1948) is a Chinese-American chef and food writer. He has hosted his award-winning PBS-TV cooking show Yan Can Cook since 1982.
With ancestral roots in Hoiping, Yan was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China to a restaurateur father and a grocer mother. Yan began to cook at the age of 12. When he was 13, he moved to Hong Kong, where he attended the Munsang College in Kowloon City. During this time in Munsang College, he worked at his uncle's Chinese restaurant and learned the traditional method of Chinese barbecue. He received a diploma from the Overseas Institute of Cookery of Hong Kong and later left for Canada for continued study. Ten years after his arrival in North America, Yan received a Master of Science degree in food science from University of California, Davis, in 1975.
He is not related to Chinese-Canadian chef Stephen Yan of Wok With Yan, though for a year in the 1970s, Martin Yan worked for Stephen Yan who trained him as one of Stephen Yan's 'Flying Squad' of six chefs who flew across Canada to do demonstrations in Chinese cooking for events like the Calgary Stampede, the Klondike Days in Edmonton and houseware demonstrations at Hudson's Bay Company stores.
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Current items with a signature of Martin Yan
These are the most current items with a signature of Martin Yan that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
Traded items with a signature of Martin Yan
The most expensive item with a signature of Martin Yan (CHEF YAN'S ENTERTAINING AT HOME Martin Yan SIGNED Bestseller) was sold in May 2026 for $354.90 while the cheapest item (The Chinese Chef - Martin Yan (1985) 2nd Printing *SIGNED*) found a new owner for $5.67 in September 2025. The month with the most items sold (6) was July 2025 with an average selling price of $39.99 for an autographed item of Martin Yan. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2026 with $197.44 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $6.00 was August 2022. In average, an autographed item from Martin Yan is worth $28.00.
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