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SUMMARY:Hetty Lui McKinnon on Cookbook: Linger\, with Emma Straub
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Brooklyn Heights Library to hear Hetty Lui McKinnon discuss her new book Linger with Emma Straub \n“[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.” \nFrom 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. \nWith 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. \nThese 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. \nWith 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. \n\nHetty Lui McKinnon is a Chinese Australian cook and food writer. She is the author of five bestselling cookbooks\, including her genre-defining Community; Neighborhood; Family; To Asia\, With Love; and\, most recently\, Tenderheart\, which won a James Beard Award and an IACP Award in 2024. Hetty is a regular contributor to New York Times Cooking and ABC Lifestyle and writes the popular weekly newsletter To Vegetables\, With Love. Born and raised in Sydney\, she now resides in Brooklyn\, New York. \nEmma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels This Time Tomorrow\, All Adults Here\, The Vacationers\, Modern Lovers\, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures\, and the short story collection Other People We Married. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and her work has been published in more than 20 languages. Emma and her husband own Books Are Magic\, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/hetty-lui-mckinnon-on-cookbook-linger-with-emma-straub/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights\, 286 Cadman Plaza West\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Food,In Person
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Jinwoo Chong on I Leave It Up To You\, In Conversation With Grant Ginder
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Brooklyn Heights Library to hear Jinwoo Chong discuss his new novel I Leave It Up to You with Grant Ginder.\nFrom the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love\, family\, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice\, wiser than before\, and find the courage to forge a new path? \nA coma can change a man\, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history\, his Manhattan apartment is gone\, and the love of his life has left him behind. He’s been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to\, he realizes it’s been ten years since he last saw his family. \nLost and disoriented\, he makes a reluctant homecoming back to the bustling Korean American enclave of Fort Lee\, New Jersey; back into the waiting arms of his parents\, who are operating under the illusion he never left; and back to Joja\, their ever-struggling sushi restaurant that he was set to inherit before he ran away from it all. As he steps back into the life he abandoned—learning his Appa’s life lessons over crates of tuna on bleary-eyed 4 AM fish runs\, doling out amberjack behind the omakase counter while his Umma tallies the night’s pitiful number of customers\, and sparring with his recovering alcoholic brother\, James—he embraces new roles\, too: That of romantic interest to the male nurse who took care of him throughout\, and that of sage (but underqualified) uncle to his gangly teenage nephew. \nWhy do we run from those we love\, and why do we still love those who run from us? A highly entertaining and poignant story about second chances and self-discovery\, I Leave It Up to You navigates loss\, love\, and the absurdity of finding one’s footing after the ground gives way. \n\nJinwoo Chong is the author of the novel Flux\, a New York Times Editor’s Choice\, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award\, and named a best book of 2023 by Apple Books\,  Amazon Books\, Esquire\, HuffPost\, GQ\, Cosmopolitan\, and Goodreads. His work has appeared in Guernica\, The Southern Review\, The Rumpus\, LitHub\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, and Electric Literature. He lives in New York with his husband and cat. \nGrant Ginder is the author of the novels Let’s Not Do That Again\, Honestly\, We Meant Well\, The People We Hate at the Wedding\, Driver’s Education\, and This is How It Starts. Originally from Southern California\, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MFA from NYU\, where he currently teaches writing. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband\, Mac\, and their disastrous dog\, Frankie.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/author-talk-jinwoo-chong-on-i-leave-it-up-to-you-in-conversation-with-grant-ginder/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights\, 286 Cadman Plaza West\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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