Zucchini, A Seasonal Bounty
In The Silver Spoon, the renowned 50-year-old Italian cookbook recently published in English, there are 37 recipes for zucchini and six for zucchini flowers. An ample number are found in most cookbooks because zucchini is so plentiful, inexpensive and delicious and because there are so many different ways to prepare them. They are also easy and fun to grow.
During my childhood, our garden was large enough to enable zucchini and pumpkin to grow as large as possible. Their long vines wrapped themselves around the tomato plants as though they belonged to them. It really was an embarrassment of vegetable riches. We were always offering these vegetables to friends and neighbors. But it wasn’t always easy to give them away in late August since everyone had a surplus of the ever present summer squash available to them.