Kim Sunée is the author of the national bestseller, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Hachette/Grand Central), a memoir, which has been translated into Hebrew, Korean, and Chinese. Trail of Crumbs was both a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a Book Sense pick.

She has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Ladies’ Homes Journal, People, ELLE, and Glamour.

A former magazine food editor (Southern Living and Cottage Living), her writing has appeared in Food & Wine, The Oxford American, Cooking Light, and Garden & Gun. She also works on select food and travel projects as a recipe developer, producer, writer, and editor. She co-authored Everyday Korean with Seung Hee Lee of Koreanfusion.

Her next project is Our Indonesia: from street foods to feast foods by Ochi and Cédric Vongerichten (Knopf 2027).

Sunée is also working on a collection of poetry and pursuing her MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. 

Kitchen Note: All recipes have been tested by our test kitchens unless otherwise noted (sometimes we have guest posts). And all photos by Kim Sunée unless otherwise noted.

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