Kristen Kish's Return To Her Birth Country Was Beautifully Complicated

Kristen Kish's Return To Her Birth Country Was Beautifully Complicated

When Kristen Kish, winner of Top Chef Season 10 and now its host, traveled to South Korea in June 2022, she was nervous. Adopted at four months by an American family, the celebrity chef had never returned to her birth country.

Kristen Kish’s Return To Her Birth Country Was Beautifully Complicated

When Kristen Kish, winner of Top Chef Season 10 and now its host, traveled to South Korea in June 2022, she was nervous. Adopted at four months by an American family, the celebrity chef had never returned to her birth country — and wasn’t sure what she would find, feel, or even understand about a place that was hers and yet also wasn’t. “I thought I was supposed to feel this wave of emotion of ‘Oh my god, I’m home.’ I thought I was supposed to l…