Join Hetty Lui McKinnon—James Beard Award-winning food writer and cook—for a discussion of her new cookbook “Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor.”
BOOK DISCUSSION DETAILS
1/20/2026 at 6:00PM
FIRST LIGHT BOOKS WITH ALLDAY PIZZA
4300 SPEEDWAY UNIT 104
AUSTIN, TX 78751-3728
About the Author:
Hetty Lui McKinnon is a Chinese Australian cook and food writer. A James Beard Foundation finalist, she is the author of four bestselling cookbooks, including the much-loved To Asia, With Love, her genre-defining Community, Neighbourhood, the award-winning Family.
Hetty is a regular recipe contributor to New York Times Cooking, Bon Appetit and Epicurious, ABC Everyday and her recipes have appeared in Good Food, Food52, the Guardian, The Washington Post and more. Hetty is also the editor and publisher of multicultural food journal Peddler and the host of the magazine’s podcast The House Specials. Born and raised in Sydney, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Visit hettymckinnon.com or follow @hettymckinnon
About the Book:
“Hetty McKinnon doesn’t write great vegetarian recipes, she just writes great recipes.”
—Nigella Lawson
In her follow-up to the James Beard award-winning cookbok Tenderheart, Hetty Lui McKinnon returns with Linger, a cookbook for those looking to up their salad game. These colorful main-meal salads are inventive and hearty, packed with vegetables and globally-inspired flavors. Linger proves that salads are the most versatile dish, perfect for weeknight dinners, not-sad-desk-lunches, and as a show-stopping celebration meal.
From her salad-delivery days in Sydney to her current career as a food writer and bestselling cookbook author in New York, Hetty has long known the power of salads to connect and create community. In Linger, Hetty presents her salads, sweets and stories in twelve vibrant, loosely-seasonal menus — each of which have their own playlist — that are the perfect blueprint for gathering and entertaining.
Over 100 recipes, including:
• Caprese Salad with Grilled Pineapple • Mapo Tofu salad
• Cauliflower Larb • French Onion Salad
• Curry Potato-and-Pea Dumpling Salad • Potato Salad Tartine
• Vegan Dan Dan salad
• Roasted Spiced Carrots and Crispy Tofu with Agrodolce
•Tomato and Kimchi Pasta Salad • Butternut with Lentils, Olives, and Pickle Sauce
• Plus sweets like Hong Kong Milk Tea Tres Leches and Matcha and Ginger Custard Tart!
