Kim Sunée
Kim Sunée (born South Korea) is an American memoirist and food writer, known for her 2008 memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home,[1] published by Grand Central Publishing which has also been translated into Korean, Hebrew and Chinese. She has also published two cookbooks, including Everyday Korean with co-author Seung-Hee Lee.
Life
[edit]In 1973, three-year-old Sunée was abandoned by her mother in a South Korean market. She was adopted by a middle-class couple from New Orleans, Louisiana, where she "grew up in comfortable circumstances but with a growing sense of dislocation and restlessness".[1] She has a sister who is also a South Korean adoptee.[2] At 18, she traveled to Europe to study, first living in France and then Sweden.
Writing
[edit]Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home has received favorable reviews from publications such as the Chicago Tribune,[3] the San Francisco Chronicle,[2] and Epicurious.[4]
She has been a food editor for several Time Warner publications and currently freelances for various publications. She currently resides in the United States.
Personal life
[edit]In Sweden in 1992, she met and entered into a long-term romantic relationship with Olivier Baussan, founder of the L'Occitane en Provence cosmetics company. Sunée's book tells about her life through her breakup with Baussan, interspersed with recipes.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Read, Mimi (2008-02-20). "Life as a Repast, Not Yet Complete". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ a b Sawyers, June. "Sunée leaves a 'Trail of Crumbs' in her search for herself". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ^ "Looking for home - Los Angeles". Chicago Tribune.[dead link]
- ^ "Literary Tastes: A Book Review for Trail of Crumbs". Epicurious. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
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[edit]- Living people
- 1970 births
- American food writers
- American memoirists
- American writers of Korean descent
- Writers from New Orleans
- Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
- South Korean adoptees
- American adoptees
- American women food writers
- American women memoirists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American memoirists