Cover -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- It's Always Five O'Clock Somewhere -- the arturo -- juicy fruit cocktail -- lemon cordial -- dark & stormy -- barley water -- Working up an Appetite -- frico -- shrimp ceviche -- halibut with tomatoes, mint, and lemon -- quick-cured salmon -- jamón serrano on toast with red tomato preserves -- little blue reds -- hot sausages & cold oysters -- Avocado Love -- in praise of the hass avocado -- an avocado with crab salad -- cold avocado & cucumber soup -- guacamole and chips -- chicken tacos for lunch -- avocado, arugula, and grapefruit salad -- A Big Bowl of Soup -- chilled cauliflower soup -- consommé bellevue -- tomato-cucumber water -- corn soup with lobster and avocado -- Fines Herbes -- green sauce -- toasted bread crumbs -- summer mayonnaise -- omelet with fines herbes -- pasta with parsley and toasted walnut sauce -- parsley-potato salad -- Luncheon Salads -- salmon salad -- halibut salad -- canal house curried chicken salad -- shrimp salad -- chopped ham salad with hard-boiled eggs -- anytime egg salad -- The Big Reds -- tomato tart -- sliced tomato salad with blue cheese -- tomatoes take a warm oil bath -- red peppers stuffed with tomatoes -- red tomato preserves -- Right out of the Garden -- simple summer vegetables -- grilled leeks with romesco sauce -- grilled eggplant with mint -- Gone Fishin' -- halibut and lentils with fennel -- salmon with lemon-butter sauce -- kippers -- terrine of salmon and peas -- The Bird is the Word -- roasted chicken smothered in chanterelles -- turkey galantine -- panko fried chicken with lemon -- The Grill -- grilled quail & fresh figs -- grilled spatchcocked chicken -- grilled branzino -- grilled duck breast with prunes in red wine -- the whole beef tenderloin, peppered and grilled -- smoky mussels with toasted bread crumbs -- Summer Sweets -- berry cobbler.

tuiles -- strong coffee granita -- pink lemon granita -- zabaione -- Preserving Summer -- patty curtan's famous apricot jam -- red currant jelly -- romesco sauce -- bagna cauda.