This piece was originally published in The Inquisitive Eater Anthology, which you can now purchase online.
What’s your go-to snack when you’re reading or writing? Dry roasted almonds.
What’s your favorite piece of writing/art that has to do with food? M.F.K. Fisher’s The Art of Eating.
What do you think is the most writerly food/drink? Coffee.
What’s a food you’ve read about that you wish you could actually experience? Mangosteens; I tried mangotsteens in Thailand only because of R.W. Apple’s essay, and he was absolutely right. I wish I could have some more. Like now.
If you had to live off one food for the rest of your life what would it be? Seolleongtang.
Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award. A New York Times bestseller, Pachinko was a Top 10 Book of the Year for The New York Times, USA Today, BBC, and the New York Public Library. Pachinko was on over 75 best-of-the-year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN. Lee’s debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel, global affairs, and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal, and Food & Wine. She has served as a columnist for The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s leading newspaper, for three seasons. She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writers. A 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction, Lee has been named a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University for 2018-2019, where she will be researching and writing her third novel, American Hagwon.
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