Recipe for a Sizzling Umbria Summer: Pesto Revisited
The scorching heat – daily temperatures over 40 C (well over 100 F ) – blistering central and southern Italy for all July and much of August has broiled our vegetable garden. Some tomatoes gamely survive but salad, beans, peppers, eggplants, onions, cucumbers, celery and even the parsley, have all succumbed. Even the massive centuries-old…