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.
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".
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.
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.