It's much too easy just to say salad. Especially when you want something that is fresh, light, tempting and healthy not too demanding, perhaps, but tasty nevertheless. This is a world, a universe even, which has the same common denominators, lettuce and co, but with thousands of variations that all depend on personal tastes and the current season. Salad, the timeless legend of the 1980s, is the perfect solution for a light, but tasty, lunch that is rich in nutritional goodness and capable of quickly inducing that wonderful feeling of fullness. Radicchio and endive, but fava beans, pine nuts, avocados, beans, potatoes, black rice and spelt, too. These are the ingredients which make up the base of the 40 recipes contained in iCook Italian, to help you create tasty balanced salads. Tuna, anchovies, eggs and cheese are also used to enhance the flavours of the vegetables, leaves and greens. These 40 salads, which can be enhanced with some bread, crostini and bread sticks, bring wellbeing to the table and can be experimented with all year round, as you follow the rhythms of the seasons. And for the pleasure seekers out there, what about a fine glass of wine to forever banish the idea that a salad is not a happy dish. iCook Italian is a series of cookery eBooks, each one containing 40 illustrated recipes. From appetisers to pasta, from rice to soups, from second courses of meat and fish to ice-creams, desserts, puddings and cakes as well as pizza, focacce, egg dishes and salads, iCook Italian is a genuine feast of Italian gastronomy. All dishes were chosen by taking a peek at the recipe books in grandmother's kitchen along with those of the most creative and talented chefs in the country, marrying tradition with modernity and putting regional specialities alongside the cuisine of other countries. All were chosen with an eye on their nutritional value, something which has made Mediterranean cuisine such a success. Each recipe is accompanied by a photo of the finished dish and step by step instructions on how to make it. We haven't forgotten about the ideal wine either, which helps bring out the very best in flavours and aromas, and some simple, but practical, advice about the pleasures of food and how to choose the right ingredients for that final touch of class. Secrets stolen from the best kitchens in Italy.