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The incessant scraping of the spatula, the thrum of the kitchen exhaust and the clatter of chopsticks as the table was set were the sounds of Hetty McKinnon s childhood.
Her parents had come from China to Sydney in search of a better life before she and her brother and sister were born.
In the suburbs of Sydney, while her Dad worked at the Flemington Markets, Hetty s mother Lee Yuk Ying never stopped working in the kitchen
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She had three freezers full of food already prepared for the future, and her garden was full of shallots, gourds, chillies, mandarins, cumquats and greens to add to her recipes.