Food & The Search for Home and Identity

Linda Akutagawa & Yon Na's first guest speaker is Kim Sunee, food editor, author, and chef. Kim Sunee was born in South Korea, raised in New Orleans, and then lived in France for ten years. She has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Ladies’ Homes Journal, People, ELLE, and Glamour. Her writing has appeared in Food & Wine, The Oxford American, Cooking Light, Garden and Gun, and Asian American Poetry and Writing. Sunee has appeared several times as a guest judge on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America.

Kim Sunee was abandoned at a marketplace in Seoul, Korea as a toddler. Later, she was adopted by a family based in New Orleans. Sunee’s identity has been influenced by her search for home through food - as both sustenance and a language of belonging. Listen to the conversation and stories that helped form Kim Sunee's identity.