Under the olive tree: family and food in Lugano and the Costa Smeralda, Italy. Manuela Darling-Gansser. 2003.

Under the Olive Tree is a story of family life and food in Lugano, an elegant city on the shores of a Swiss lake near the northern Italian border, and the emerald seas of the Costa Smeralda in Sardegna, Italy.Manuela Darling-Gansser, along with photographer Simon Griffiths, captures this inspirational journey as she revisits the memories, sights, smells and tastes of her home town and the summer holidays of her childhood.

Eat wild mushrooms with polenta, salami and mountain cheeses with red wine in the tiny grotto restaurants in the remote valleys of southern Switzerland. Sample the traditional Sardegnan Culligiones, large pasta cushions filled with potato and wild mint, and Semifreddo Di Miele Amaro, a soft ice-cream flavoured with the unique Sardegnan bitter honey, in the picturesque harbours on the Mediterranean.