To Asia, With Love by Hetty McKinnon

To Asia, With Love by Hetty McKinnon'To Asia, With Love is my homecoming, a joyous return to the humble, yet deeply nurturing flavours and meals of my childhood as a Chinese girl born in Australia. It is also a celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking.' Recipes range from the traditional salt and pepper eggplant, red curry laksa, congee, a perfectly simple egg, pea and ginger fried rice to Hetty's uniquely modern interpretations, such as buttery

she's reading

It is about class and sport and politics and migration and education

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle on a cold and rainy day

and he's white

As the only Second Daughter born in centuries

and anticipation is at a fever pitch

The Ake Festival

A father on the rampage over at the primary school

Interwoven with traditional Afghan recipes is one family's story of a region long afflicted by war

she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her

Master the use of these four elements-Salt

there is something within these pages to make everyone feel at home