Five books for simple summer cooking
Feel like cooking for the vacations? Here are five summer recipe books, featuring colorful aperitifs, seasonal vegetables, fruity sweets and spicy drinks to discover all summer long.
With the vacations just around the corner, it's the perfect time to get back to cooking. We've selected five new literary releases to make the most of the fine weather, depending on the occasion.
To succumb to the heat
This colorful book brings together everything you'd expect from a summer meal: the freshness of citrus fruits, spicy grills and seaside dishes. A summery-sounding playlist completes the book, for total immersion.
- Cagnard, Emanuela Cino, Éditions de La Martinière
- Price: €27
Enjoying loved ones
After a successful first collection last year, Andrée Zana Murat once again offers a multitude of recipes that are best shared. From mezzés to large, unifying dishes, the recipes transport us to a summer's day that we want to last... Special attention is paid to summer fruits and vegetables, which have their own chapter.
- L'été passe, les recettes restent toujours, Andrée Zana Murat, Hachette Cuisine
- Price: €24.95
Spice up your aperitifs
To accompany your evenings, here's a book for an aperitif prepared in just a few minutes. With 60 colorful recipes, discover the great classic dips, as well as more original creations. With crudités, fresh bread or breadsticks, enjoy the moment to your heart's content!
- Dip me, Yariv Berreby and Sandra Mahut, Marabout
- Price: €16.95
To sublimate vegetables
Whether they come from your garden or the farmer's market, vegetables can be cooked in so many different ways that you'll never get bored of them. Prepared as a dish or side dish, Marie Chioca proves that vegetables are summer's allies, to be enjoyed without moderation!
- Fabulous vegetables, Marie Chioca, Terre Vivante
- Price: €25
For a taste of beverages with a kick
down with the classics: this summer is all about discovery. And Mathilde Roelinger's book Boire les épices (Drinking Spices ) is a nugget of inspiration. through recipes for hot and cold drinks, the author explores spices that are more or less well known, and that should be tried urgently.
- Boire les épices, Mathilde Roellinger and Beena Paradin Migotto, Ulmer
- Price: €26
