![]() "I had a lot of different people from around the world as friends and so I ate a lot of different things at a lot of different places. at the age of six with her father who was Cameroon's ambassador to the U.N. However, her first encounter with kimchi was way back when she attended the United Nations school after moving to the U.S. I was really starting to experience food in another way," Yoon told The Korea Times during a Zoom interview, Dec. ![]() ![]() I was like feeling the food with all the senses. "When I ate the kimchi the halmoni gave me, I started to feel all the ingredients of Korean food. Instead of being offended, Yoon asked the elderly woman, whom she later calls "halmoni" (the Korean word for grandmother), to help her and Yoon began to explore a whole new realm of Korean food and its ingredients. Back then she gained weight from stress coming from being an activist and when she was trying a sample of Korean cream bread, an elderly Korean woman told Yoon that she was "fat" and she should eat Korean food. The Cover of Africa Yoon's memoir "The Korean" / Courtesy of BlackyoonicornĪfrica Byongchan Yoon, a Cameroonian-American activist, unravels her journey from Suzanne Engo to Africa Byongchan Yoon, sparked by kimchi, in her memoir "The Korean."Īn experience at a Korean grocery store in New Jersey changed her life completely when Yoon was in her late 20s. ![]() Africa Yoon, author of "The Korean," poses with vegetables and "banchan" (Korean side dish) including kimchi. ![]()
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