Recipes from an Italian Summer

Recipes From An Italian Summer is the ultimate Italian summer cookbook. Featuring delicious, easy-to-make seasonal recipes for picnics, barbeques, salads, light lunches and suppers, summer entertaining, ice creams and drinks, it’s well laid out and easy to follow.

These are truly authentic recipes which will appeal to those serious about Italian cookery as well as novices. Utilising ingredients widely available in the UK, it’s perfect for getting the best out of tasty summer produce such as tomatoes, fresh herbs, peas and beans, fresh fruit and berries.

The dessert section in particular features several recipes which use only five or less ingredients, making delightful sweet dishes, charming in their simplicity and extremely straight forward to make. This is the type of book which has you forming a mental shopping list as you leaf through it, planning your next dinner party.

Beautiful styling and photographs of Italy by renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz, make this a stunning addition to any food-lovers cookbook collection.

(Published by Phaidon)

**Written by:** Carine Seitz