Olivier baussan and kim sunee

By Corina Knoll

For Kim Sunée, life is a summary of homemade meals to linger over, dishes that start with fresh ingredients and end with empty bottles of wine.

Kim Sunée's memoir chronicles the rapturous meals she has eaten He was Olivier Baussan, founder of L'Occitane, the line of natural.

Kim Sunée's memoir chronicles the rapturous meals she has eaten He was Olivier Baussan, founder of L'Occitane, the line of natural.

The dashing Olivier Baussan, the philanthropic founder of the perfume company L'Occitane, swept the 22-year old Sunée off to France and into.

Kim Sunée 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.

After graduation from Nice, she moves to Stockholm and, after only a few months, commences an affair with Olivier Baussan, the multimillionaire.

At 22, while studying in Switzerland, Sunée was introduced to Olivier Baussan, the French founder of L'Occitane, who was almost 20 years her senior.

Like spring pea salad with minted cream. Or wild peaches poached in Lillet Blanc and lemon verbena.

Sunée’s most vivid memories, in fact, center around what was being cooked or eaten at the time. “I might not remember somebody’s name, but I will remember flavors,” the 37-year-old says.

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Which is why her memoir Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search For Home serves double duty as a cookbook.

At the end of nearly every chapter, Sunée offers a memory and correlating recipe: “Poppy whistled along, cleaning the crawfish heads, picking the tail meat, and setting it aside for a labor-intensive but most rewarding dish,” she writes before offering a guide to making her grandfather’s famous crawfish bisque.

But it is on the streets of Seoul where Sunée’s earliest recollections actually begin.

Abandoned at age 3 by he