New items for your kitchen: Make snow cones now with your KitchenAid

In time for warmer weather and well-chilled cocktails, slushy desserts and refreshing snow cones, KitchenAid has added an ice shaver to its roster of mixer attachments. Fill the molds that fit the unit and freeze them, then pop them in, activate your machine and a feathery cloud of shaved ice falls into your waiting con- tainer. Coffee, fruit juice or other liquids can be used. What a way to serve gazpacho! There are two blades, fine and coarse. It fits all models of the company’s standing mixers.

Shave ice attachment, $99.99, kitchenaid.com.

Everyday Italian recipes from Serafina

In their new cookbook, Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Gr nato describe the unlikely creation of their still-expanding, New York- based Serafina restaurant chain: While stuck on a stranded catamaran in a storm off Long Island in 1994, they swore they’d open the restaurant if they survived. The vibrantly photographed cookbook based on the restaurants’ dishes describes essential Italian ingredients, and the recipe chapters are like a menu, starting with antipasti and ending with dessert.

The richest section is devoted to pasta. They provide fusilli con pesto alla Genovese, which classically includes green beans and potatoes; some minimal but effective combinations of spaghetti with bottarga, and penne with butter and sage; and a cheater’s carbonara that includes cream. The pizza chapter is well-stuffed, heavy on variations of the traditional margherita. Simply roasted meats and vegetables should encourage even a beginner.

“Serafina: Modern Italian Cuisine for Everyday Home Cooking” by Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato, text by Lavinia Branca Snyder, (Rizzoli, $39.95).

KITCHENAID VIA THE NEW YORK TIMES KitchenAid has added an ice shaver to its roster of attachments. There are two blades, fine and coarse. It fits all models of the company’s standing mixers.