This salad shows how anise flavors can be layered without overthrowing the other ingredients or dominating the overall dish. Here is a lovely double fennel salad, a wonderful way to show how we can create an entire meal around one vegetable: crunchy shaved raw fennel is slathered in fennel frond pesto and tossed with crispy morsels of pan-fried gnocchi. (Hetty McKinnon) Fennel and gnocchi salad with fennel frond pesto “I wanted to have this as a little dose of their grandfather.” Recipes from 'Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds'īy Hetty Lui McKinnon Fennel and gnocchi salad with fennel frond pesto. “We live in the West and the intergenerational history gets lost,” McKinnon says. And she wishes the same for her children. She says that cooking dishes that represent her heritage helps her feel connected to it. The Chinese-Australian chef interweaves recipes drawn from her Cantonese upbringing, specifically dishes that include vegetables. Recently, she released her new book ' Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds.' She credits “Tenderheart” with essentially forcing her to process some of the emotions she carried around her father’s death as she wrote the book. McKinnon authored the popular cookbook ' To Asia, With Love,” in 2021.

“But through food, it gave me the courage to kind of think about his life, think about his legacy.” It kind of binds itself to your whole soul and it becomes you,” she says. “The pain of losing someone doesn't go away. But leaning into cooking food that reminded her of him helped, she says. For decades, she says the pain of remembering her father was too great, so she shied away from feeling her grief. She remembers her childhood marked by an abundance of fresh produce. Hetty Lui McKinnon’s father was a Chinese immigrant who worked in Australia’s wholesale fruit and vegetable business. Carrot Peanut Satay Ramen from 'Tenderheart.' (Hetty McKinnon)

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