Le secret des Vietnamiennes (2017; the English version, Secrets from my Vietnamese Kitchen, is scheduled for 2019) is Kim Thúy’s latest release and it further illustrates the importance of food in the author’s work. In this book, Thúy pays tribute to the cuisine of her country of origin, whose women have been able to preserve the recipes, even in exile. Usually circulated among family, the book’s selected recipes invite the reader to travel and experience a sense of displacement. It is in this context that the idea of culinary exoticism will be further explored, as a framework that invites a new reading of family history.