Six best lemon recipes from Sardinia
'T he first lemon I fell in love with was made of plastic and lived on the top shelf of my grandmother's refrigerator,' Letitia Clark recalls. 'It came out on special occasions or, more precisely, for prawn cocktails and pancakes.' Now that she lives in Sardinia, the chef, who trained with Skye Gyngell at Spring and Sam and Sam Clark at Moro, reaches for her favourite citrus fruit in all her cooking, whether to brighten an otherwise dull plate of food or to add a summery fragrance to a pudding. 'Even now after seven years in Italy, I still delight at the sight of a lemon — more so a lemon with leaves,' she says.
Letitia Clark with her husband, Lorenzo, and their son
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