The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: Vietnamese Heritage
As the daughter of a U.S. soldier and a Vietnamese woman who met and married during the Vietnam War, Kim has made Vietnamese heritage and immigration a frequent focus of her writing.
Kim's writing about Vietnamese heritage ranges from the historical to the deeply personal, including essays about her relationship with her mother and journalistic accounts of Vietnamese immigration and heritage, particularly in and around Arlington, Virginia--the first home away from home for the Vietnamese community in the nation's capital. Kim has presented or spoken about this topic to such organizations as WETA-DC (PBS), DCist, the Arlington Historical Society, Leadership Arlington, and American University. She has also appeared in public television programs and videos about Vietnamese heritage.
In Spring 2019, Kim was a Virginia Humanities fellow at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, where she researched, wrote, and spoke on this topic in support of a book project, The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: A Story of Food, Place, and Family. This blog post details some of Kim's research at the library during the fellowship.
Below is a selection of Kim's previous writings and appearances on this topic.
Kim's writing about Vietnamese heritage ranges from the historical to the deeply personal, including essays about her relationship with her mother and journalistic accounts of Vietnamese immigration and heritage, particularly in and around Arlington, Virginia--the first home away from home for the Vietnamese community in the nation's capital. Kim has presented or spoken about this topic to such organizations as WETA-DC (PBS), DCist, the Arlington Historical Society, Leadership Arlington, and American University. She has also appeared in public television programs and videos about Vietnamese heritage.
In Spring 2019, Kim was a Virginia Humanities fellow at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, where she researched, wrote, and spoke on this topic in support of a book project, The Saving Grace of Spring Rolls: A Story of Food, Place, and Family. This blog post details some of Kim's research at the library during the fellowship.
Below is a selection of Kim's previous writings and appearances on this topic.
Sacred Spaces in New Orleans"When I was younger, I used to feel like something of a religious tourist." Kim's essay on finding religion in Vietnamese New Orleans appears in Catapult, the second of a three-part series. (Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult)
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Finding Little Saigon...Kim has a three-part series called "Finding Little Saigon" in the online literary magazine Catapult. This column centers on the Eden Center, a popular Vietnamese food mecca in Virginia.
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Cooking and Healing in My Mother's KitchenKim's essay on Vietnamese spring rolls and what they represent appears in Al Jazeera's Fork the System series.
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Echoes of Little SaigonKim authored this 28-page booklet about Arlington's "Little Saigon," the first major settlement for Vietnamese refugees in the nation's capital after the war.
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Finding My Mother,
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Perfect Harmony at
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Food and Family in
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When in Doubt,
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