Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor: A Cookbook

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"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 cookbook 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 in New York as both a food writer for The New York Times and a bestselling cookbook author, 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!