TASTES OF THE MED Recipes from the seashore

Transport yourself to sun-baked climes with these recipes that harness the freshest ingredients from their shores

The various cuisines of the western Mediterranean are really branches of a single olive tree, planted 2,600 years ago by the Greeks, and fertilised by the Romans and the Arabs,’ says food writer David Dale. In Coastline, the cookbook he co-wrote with restaurateur Lucio Galletto, the cuisines of Italy, France and Spain’s shores are celebrated for their overlapping but diverse recipes – ideal to be lingered over on hot summer days and balmy nights.