Jennifer Kim on Breaking the Chain of Generational Trauma in Hospitality

To this day, my parents remain a bit of a mystery. They’re still kicking around, doing what parents do, but our interactions are rooted in the day-to-day and rarely about “the past.” This made it hard when it came time to open my second Chicago restaurant, Passerotto, an homage to my upbringing as a second-generation Korean American. Here’s the thing about food media: they want the story—a neatly packaged paragraph...