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.
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". She has a sister who is also a South Korean adoptee. At 18, she traveled to Europe to study, first living in France and then Sweden.
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home has received favorable reviews from publications such as the Chicago Tribune,[2] the San Francisco Chronicle,[3] 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.
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.