Everything Cookbooks
Everything Cookbooks
Andrea Nguyen, Molly Stevens, Kate Leahy, Kristin Donnelly
30: Making a Moving Cookbook Memoir with Eric Kim [re-release]
42 minutes Posted Sep 24, 2025 at 10:00 am.
0:00
42:37
Download MP3
Show notes
Originally aired on November 23, 2022
Andrea and Kristin talk with Eric Kim about his intensely personal and remarkable book, Korean American. He shares his inspirations and motivations for the essay format, how he wrote his family as characters and the potential and limits of memoir writing. He talks about the idea of authenticity in food, what goes into naming recipes and the unpredictability of a viral recipe.