Rewind! Reframing Trauma with Chef Sang Kim

Reframeables

We joined writer and chef Sang Kim for a conversation around reframing trauma. We were thrilled to get Sang's perspective as one who has lived life from so many different vantage points — there is so much here in this interview! We touch on the search for "home," crossovers between art forms, cooking as a source of joy, what it takes to be a great improviser, and reframing trauma through daily practice.
Sang Kim is a regular food contributor on CTV's The Social, The Marilyn Denis Show, Your Morning, and Breakfast Television. Season one of his television show Searching with Chef Sang, documenting the intersection of his Korean immigrant experience with the broader Canadian culture, airs on TLN and streams on VivaTV this summer. He currently operates North America’s most popular sushi making school, Sushi Making for the Soul. He has been featured as CNE celebrity Chef and LCBO’s Celebrity Chef Of The Month and served as Chef Ambassador for the United States Department of Agriculture. He was also the recipient in the Best Dish category at the renowned Chengdu International Culinary Competition in 2019.
Links:
Searching with Chef Sang
Sushi Making for the Soul
Follow Sang Kim on Twitter and Instagram
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We love hearing from our listeners! Leave us a voice message, write to the show email, or send us a DM on any of our socials.
If our conversations support you in your own reframing practice, please consider a donation on our Patreon, where you can also hear bonus episodes, or tipping us on Ko-fi. Subscribe to the Reframeables Newsletter. Follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube too.

Chapters

1. Introducing Chef Sang (00:00:00)

2. Sang's journey to becoming a writer and chef (00:01:56)

3. Writing speaking to Sang's true nature (00:10:14)

4. What are you searching for in Searching with Chef Sang? (00:12:10)

5. Improvising in cooking, and imposter syndrome (00:16:35)

6. Consciousness and trauma (00:20:27)

7. How to Open a Restaurant in 30 Days, and thoughts on critics (00:26:52)

8. How Sang's relationship to food has evolved (00:33:04)

9. Amor fati (00:38:23)

10. Daily ritual (00:40:18)

11. Speed round (00:42:16)

12. Wrapping up (00:44:43)