How Dumplings Heals Generational Trauma with Chef Katie Chin

🎙️Carrie On!

Show Notes:

Celebrity chef and performer Katie Chin shares how cooking with her mother helped heal generational trauma—spanning immigrant beginnings, the legendary Sean Connery restaurant story, sibling loss and silence, and her TEDx talk “Dumplings Released My Demons.” Celebrity chef, award-winning author, and performer Katie Chin joins Carrie On! to explore how the act of cooking can open hard conversations and help heal generational trauma. We trace her family’s immigrant journey from Guangzhou to Minneapolis, the rise of her mother Leeann Chin from seamstress to restaurateur (with a little help from Sean Connery!), and the cycles of shame and silence that Katie chose to break. Katie talks about losing a sister to suicide, finding friendship with her mother later in life through food, pivoting from  ...