Linger

The author of cult classic Community returns, with a cookbook about making friends and forging connection over salad.

'My culinary life began with salad. A charred broccoli salad, to be specific. Crispy florets tossed with chickpeas and cooling mint, flecked with red chilli pepper and zested lemon peel, bathed in a garlicky caper oil. That salad inspired me to consider possibilities. It ultimately led me here.'

From her salad-delivery days in Sydney to her current career as a food writer and bestselling cookbook author in New York, Hetty Lui McKinnon has long known the power of salads to connect and create community. Salads are meant to be shared; they are what you bring to a gathering of friends or family, the ultimate comfort food.

With Linger, Hetty has come full circle. Rather than delivering salads to members of her community, this time, she has invited friends into her home, to share salads, sweets and stories around her dining room table. Linger documents these intimate gatherings, with vegetable-laden, loosely seasonal menus enjoyed and photographed in real time.

Through her inventive recipes for meal-worthy salads, smaller bites and simple sweets, Hetty invites you to become a part of an unforgettable shared experience of community, food and friendship.

About the Author

Hetty Lui McKinnon is a Chinese-Australian cook and food writer. She is the author of five bestselling cookbooks, including her genre-defining Community, Neighbourhood, Family, To Asia, With Love and, most recently, Tenderheart, which won a 2024 James Beard Foundation Award. Hetty is a regular contributor to New York Times Cooking and ABC Lifestyle, and writes the popular weekly newsletter To Vegetables, With Love. Born and raised in Sydney, Hetty now resides in in Brooklyn, New York.