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

By Hetty Lui McKinnon

ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2025: The Washington Post, The Strategist, Bon App tit, The Boston Globe, Slate, Serious Eats, and Saveur

"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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593804198
• ISBN13: 9780593804193
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.2" x 10.1"