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
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
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
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
- ^ 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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- 21st-century American women writers
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