To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories From the Heart

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For bestselling cookbook author Hetty McKinnon, Asian cooking is personal. McKinnon grew up in a home filled with the aromas, sights, and sounds of her Chinese mother's cooking. These days she strives to recreate those memories for her own family-and yours-with traditional dishes prepared in non-traditional ways. It's a sumptuous collection of creative vegetarian recipes featuring pan-Asian dishes that anyone can prepare using supermarket ingredients. Readers will learn how to make their own kimchi, chili oil, knife-cut noodles, and dumplings. They'll learn about the wonder that is rice and discover how Asian-inspired salads are the ultimate crossover food. McKinnon offers tips for stocking your modern Asian pantry and explores the role that sweetness plays in Asian cultures. Her recipes are a celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking-from Smashed Cucumber Salad with Tahini and Spicy Oil, and Finger-lickin' Good Edamame Beans with Fried Curry Leaves, to Springtime Rolls with Miso Kale Pesto and Tamarind Apple Crisp. Featuring big, powerful flavors created from simple, fresh ingredients, these recipes are firmly rooted in the place where east meets west and where tradition charts the journey to the modern kitchen.

HETTY MCKINNON is an internationally renowned cookbook author and food writer. In 2015, Hetty relocated from Sydney to New York City, where she writes about food and runs pop-up food events and workshops. She is the author of three cookbooks: Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen; Neighbourhood: Salads, Sweets and Stories from Home and Abroad; and Family: Vegetarian Comfort Food to Nourish Every Day. In 2017, she launched her independent multicultural food journal, Peddler and in 2019 created the podcast, The House Specials.

To Asia, With Love is not just a beautiful love letter to the continent, but one to all Asian mothers. Hetty McKinnon has captured the flavor and essence of the food her mother so lovingly prepared, and managed to transpose them for our generation. Dispelling the notion that Asian ingredients are obscure and dishes meat heavy, Hetty's plant-based recipes are accessible, practical and delectable. Comforting and familiar but also current and exciting (dumplings for every season!), this is truly the food I want to cook and eat from breakfast through to dinner . . . and dessert (soy sauce brownies!). -- elen Goh, recipe developer, food columnist and co-author of Sweet Nigella Lawson described Hetty's recipes in To Asia, With Love as "a gift to the home cook". -- Nigella Lawson We cannot publish a Hetty McKinnon recipe without it winding up as the most popular recipe of the week ... in To Asia, With Love, I found a nearly greedy amount of those sure hits. -- Lauren James, Epicurious