Hetty’s story: Finding joy in food stories
Find out how Hetty McKinnon became a best-selling cookbook author and food writer, after starting her career in public relations. Hetty is now the author of five cookbooks, including Community, Family and To Asia, With Love.
A career in food wasn’t on the cards for Hetty early on. She actually spent her 20s working in fashion and beauty PR, before deciding to make a change in her 30s to find work that would better fit the lifestyle and flexibility she wanted, as a mum to three young kids.
As the story now famously goes, Hetty started making salads in her tiny terrace kitchen in Sydney’s Surry Hills, packing them up on her bike and delivering them around the neighbourhood. Before long, her loyal customers were asking for the recipes and three cookbooks later – with a fourth on the way – her delicious vegetarian creations have gone global, adored by home cooks around the world.
In this episode, Hetty talks about her cross-cultural upbringing, making the leap from PR to salad maker and self-publishing her first cookbook, which went on to become a national bestseller, as well as what life and work looks like now since starting afresh in New York with her family.
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