“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. These salads are not just piles of leafy greens—they
are beautiful rich creations. In fact one of Hetty’s salad rules is that salads don’t always
need to have leaves. Another salad rule? Anything can be a salad. With over 100 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. Recipes include:
Caprese Salad with Grilled Pineapple Bimbimbap-style Gnocchi with Gochujang Vinaigrette Rice
Paper Spring Roll Salad Sunchoke and Cannellini Beans with Never-ending Tahini Sauce Peaches
and Cream with Chili Crisp Mushroom Seaweed and White Bean Burger Salad
