Linger: Fresh Salads, Delicious Sweets & Heartwarming Stories for Healthy Meals & Cozy Gatherings | Perfect for Family Dinners & Romantic Dates

This is a Featured Preorder* for a book that will be published October 7, 2025

We're delighted that Hetty Liu McKinnon will sign all preorders of Linger! 

AND Hetty has arranged a special gift for all preorders placed by September 21: A physical gift with purchase, a 5 x 7-inch 'MISS SALAD' Print by artist , each numbered and signed by Hetty, exclusively commissioned for Linger.

This is what the publisher tells us about this book:

“[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 McKinnon’s salad rules is that salads don’t always have 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.

• Curry Potato and Pea Dumpling Salad
• Caprese Salad with Grilled Pineapple
• Bibimbap-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

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.

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