Linger

Some cookbooks are about what we eat. Linger is about why we gather to eat it.

From bestselling cookbook author Hetty Lui McKinnon comes a beautiful celebration of salads, friendship and the simple pleasure of sharing food around a table.

For Hetty, salads have always been about connection. From her early days delivering salads around Sydney to a career that has taken her to New York, food has been a way to build community. In Linger, she invites friends into her Brooklyn home to share vegetable-filled meals, sweets, stories and time together.

Across 100 inventive, approachable recipes, alongside 12 essays, 12 menus and even 12 playlists, Hetty offers inspiration for everything from meal-worthy salads and smaller bites to simple desserts. The menus are loosely seasonal and designed not simply to feed people, but to encourage everyone to stay at the table just a little longer.

Warm, generous and wonderfully personal, Linger is as much a book about gathering as it is about cooking.

Features:

• By bestselling author Hetty Lui McKinnon
• 100 approachable and inventive recipes
• Meal-worthy salads, smaller bites and simple sweets
• 12 essays
• 12 complete menus
• 12 accompanying playlists
• Vegetable-led and loosely seasonal cooking
• Celebrates food, friendship and community
• From the author of Community, Family, Neighbourhood, To Asia, With Love and Tenderheart

About the Author:
Hetty Lui McKinnon is a Sydney-born cook and food writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. Known for her generous, vegetable-led approach to cooking, she is the bestselling author of Community, Neighbourhood, Family, To Asia, With Love and Tenderheart, which received a 2024 James Beard Foundation Award.