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Kim Sunée

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Sawyers, June. "Sunée leaves a 'Trail of Crumbs' in her search for herself". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  3. ^ "Looking for home - Los Angeles". Chicago Tribune.[dead link]
  4. ^ "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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