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 Sardinia. 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 remote mountain valleys. Sample traditional Sardinian fare of Culligiones (large pasta cushions filled with wild mint and potato) and Semifreddo Di Miele Amaro (a soft ice cream flavoured with the unique Sardinian bitter honey) in the picturesque harbours of the Mediterranean. Manuela Darling-Gansser is your perfect guide and host, intimately translating the food and flavours of her heritage for you to recreate in your own kitchen. Under the Olive Tree is a celebration of Mediterranean al fresco living at its best!
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Manuela Darling-Gansser has cooking in her blood. Her great-grandfather founded a restaurant in Lugano, Switzerland, more than 120 years ago and his son, her grandfather, made it famous. An inveterate traveller, Manuela's story begins in Under the Olive Tree: Italian Summer Food and Autumn in Piemonte: Food and Travels in Italy's Northwest, and continues in Winter in the Alps: Food by the Fireside. Her most recent publication is Top 10: Recipes for the Beginner Home Cook.
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By Tricia Cliff
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I actually found this book at a yard sale in High Point, NC. But what a beauty!! I love travel books and books about Italy...and of course, cookbooks. This is the package deal. Manuela beautifully combines her love of place with her love of food and the photography is stunning. Oh that all of us common folk could live the life of the rich...
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By Mirko Bianchi
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Maybe because I'm Sardinian but born in Lugano. Maybe because my father was the chef of that fantastic restaurant in via Pessina when sold to the Bianchi's family,... Maybe because I own some of the pieces in silver of that restaurant, ... but i found this book full of passion. Passion for grate places and people, passion for foods. Thanks to Manuela, who I don't know but I really would like to. Just to share some toughts...
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