08/04/2025
Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy’s Polychromatic Coast OUT NOW!
Welcome to Campania, where sunlit terraces give way to lemon groves, and Naples’ narrow streets spill into cliffside towns. In the third volume of Recipes & Wanderings, a collaboration between Apartamento and Belmond (), we trace the dreamscape of its coastline, capturing technicolour portraits and culinary insights highlighting the region’s star staples—ancient olive groves, artisanal pasta, and handcrafted mozzarella, balanced by the tang of lemon and the richness of the sea.
From the kitchens of Belmond’s hotel, Caruso (), in Ravello, an 11th-century palace perched above the Amalfi Coast, executive chef and Naples-native Armando Aristarco () shares 18 timeless recipes—pizza, linguine alle vongole, Neapolitan ragù, Caprese salad—with 3 additional guest recipes by Nina Clemente (), Bernardo Costantino (), and Salvatore Giugliano ().
Lea Colombo’s () striking photography is interwoven with essays by Elisa Carassai (), Claudia Durastanti (.durastanti), and Margo Schachter (), each offering a prismatic view of the region—its literary echoes, its beauty as seen through a local sensibility, and its history told through its ingredients. A closing postcard afterword from celebrated Irish chef Darina Allen () reminisces on the golden haze of its shores and the explosion of its flavours. Campania invites you to savour this salt-kissed edge of Italy, where innovation transforms traditions into an art form.
