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her half-Korean daughter, Kiki, is now eight.
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Now 42, Scott has spent most of her adult life in the UK, and she remembers:“As an immigrant living in the UK, trying to embrace the culture and immerse myself into it, I lost the sense of who I am. Having my daughter made me question my identity. “Cooking Korean food felt like the most immediate, tangible thing I could reach out to, to make some sense of who I was.” Not that it was necessarily this easy. “The whole process went on for a long time, it crept up slowly but surely,” she says.
Food writer Su Scott says her world started to “collapse” after giving birth to her first child.
“It sounds dramatic, but when my daughter was born, it was like wow,I have this child,there is a responsibility to keep this newborn alive,” she remembers, with the added pressure of being “the sole bearer of the culture as an immigrant mum”.
“It didn’t take me long to realise that my world was collapsing
Scott moved from Seoul to London when she was 19, and
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