Under the olive tree: Italian Summer Food

By Manuela Darling-Gansser

In this book, a passionate cook takes you on a culinary odyssey. "Under the Olive Tree" is a celebration of Mediterranean al fresco living at its best! "Under the Olive Tree" is a story of family life and food in Lugano, an elegant city clinging to the edges of a Swiss Lake near the northern Italian border, and the sapphire seas of the Costa Smeralda in Sardegna, Italy.

Manuela Darling-Gansser, along with photographer Simon Griffiths, captures this inspirational journey as she revisits the memories, sights, smells and tastes of her home town and the summer holidays of her childhood.

Eat salami and mountain cheeses with red wine in the tiny grotto restaurants in the remote valleys of southern Switzerland.

Sample traditional Sardinian fare of Culligiones, large pasta cushions filled with potato and wild mint and Semifreddo Di Miele Amaro, a soft ice cream flavoured with the unique Sardegnan bitter honey in the picturesque harbours on the Mediterranean...

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