A recipe for simple udon noodles in soy broth that tastes simply irresistible
“The book is now a bigger message,” McKinnon said. “You see this quote on Instagram all the time: ‘Love us like you love our food.’”
A cook and food writer who ran a salad delivery business in Sydney before moving to the United States, McKinnon is the author of the best-selling cookbooks “Neighborhood” and “Family.” In “To Asia, With Love,” she wanted to more squarely address her experience as someone born in Australia to Chinese-immigrant parents. “The way I cook is, in many ways, third-culture cooking, a cross-pollination of ideas and techniques that are grounded in my Chinese heritage, yet greatly influenced by growing up in the Western World,” she writes in the book. “It is not distinctly Chinese, nor Australian, but rather a third interpretation of the two cultures.”
As she told me: “My upbringing is like that of many immigrant children, teetering between so