A humble Southern Italian veggie snack and the ultimate stopgap.

The perfect end-of-summer pasta dressed with tomatoes, basil, almonds and Pecorino. Crispy fried aubergines optional.

The most disarming way with aubergines.

A deliciously simple pasta salad, as sunny and salty as the Sicilian sea.

A summer-savvy potato salad with tuna, from the Sicilian island of Salina.

Reliably refreshing and filling at the same time, no cooking required.

Twice old-fashioned, twice delicious.

Spring peas in their full, silky and scented splendour, from Veneto

A fool-proof ragu recipe, appropriately ‘exciting the appetite’.

An unambiguously delicious Franco-Italian recipe, in exquisite use of a British vegetable.

A new season lasagne of spring vegetables, topped with eggs mimosa.

Possibly the most pleasurable pasta dish ever devised.