Lea Colombo’s book signing of Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast at AKJP Studio’s bar in Cape Town was marked by juicy vegetables, spritz, and colours to match the kaleidoscopic forms of her craft. Her technicolour portraits of Italy’s southern edge bring the book to life, accompanying a collection of 21 classic dishes, guest recipes, and essays—all tracing the region’s deep-running currents of artisanal traditions, community, and cuisine.
Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast—the third title in our series with Belmond after Liguria: Recipes & Wanderings Along the Italian Riviera and Penang: Recipes & Wanderings Around an Island in Malaysia—features essays by Elisa Carassai, Claudia Durastanti, and Margo Schachter, each offering a prismatic exploration of the region: its literary echoes, its beauty as seen through a local sensibility, and its history told through its ingredients. Recipes include contributions from executive chef and Naples native Armando Aristarco, drawn from the kitchens of Belmond’s Hotel Caruso—an 11th-century palace perched above the Amalfi Coast—alongside guest dishes by renowned chefs Nina Clemente, Bernardo Costantino, and Salvatore Giugliano. It all concludes with a postcard afterword by celebrated Irish chef Darina Allen: an ode to the golden haze of its shores and the explosion of its flavours. Dive in!
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