SUMMER KITCHENS

OLIA HERCULES, BLOOMSBURY, $59.99

The title may suggest that this is just a book about the food we love to make and eat in summer. It is, though, so much more. It’s a celebration of ‘the summer kitchen’, a little building Ukrainians have in their vegetable garden where they do all their cooking, pickling and preserving in the warmer months of the year. Thus, it is not just the fresh food of summer, it is what we can do with the bounty of the garden so it lasts right through winter, too. I think I need to find room to build myself one!