Simposio | Italian Recipes, Travel, and Culture: The Capri Issue - Couverture souple

Rinaldi, Claudia

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798650881759

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

CAPRI – SIMPOSIO
Recipes, Stories & the Lightness of an Island in Summer

This is not a typical island cookbook.

CAPRI explores the island through food as a language of light, seasonality, and suspended time. Here, cooking is not performance or excess, but a daily ritual shaped by sun, sea, gardens, and the rhythm of summer.

Capri is approached not through luxury or spectacle, but through kitchens open to the breeze, shared tables, and gestures that repeat year after year. Recipes emerge from a place where simplicity is intentional and ingredients speak clearly.

This book was shaped by wandering, observation, and memory—following instinct, listening to the island, and then pursuing each trace as it opened into another, like a rabbit hole. A salad leads to a garden wall, a dessert to citrus groves, a drink to evening light and quiet rituals under the stars.

CAPRI is not:

• a glamorous portrait of island life
• a tourist guide disguised as a cookbook
• a collection of Mediterranean clichés

It is a cultural monograph told through food, combining recipes, legends, and lived observation.

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Capri is an island where food follows the season. The cuisine reflects freshness, restraint, and pleasure without excess—seafood, vegetables, citrus, herbs, and simple preparations.

This volume includes fully contextualized Capri recipes accompanied by essays on island rituals, folklore, seasonal celebrations, and the Mediterranean art of living.

Recipes include fresh seafood dishes, vegetable-based preparations, lemon-forward desserts, and everyday classics such as insalata caprese, each presented as part of a broader sensory and cultural system rather than isolated instructions.

Recipes function as cultural keys: each dish exists for a reason, in a specific place, within a specific season and quality of light.

This book is for readers who love Italy not as a destination, but as a state of mind; for slow travelers, cooks who read, and readers who cook. It is also for those with Italian heritage who seek to reconnect with Mediterranean rhythms through depth, context, and lived tradition rather than nostalgia.

CAPRI is part of SIMPOSIO, a collection of travel cookbooks dedicated to Italy. Each volume is autonomous, yet incomplete on its own—chapters of a larger journey through food, territory, and everyday life.

A book to read, to cook from, and to keep.
An invitation to taste summer, light, and memory—one dish at a time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798650881759
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
• Éditeur: Schram Annamaria
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg