LIGURIA: Recipes & Wanderings Along the Italian Riviera is the first in a new series of books from Apartamento offering an exclusive window into culinary communities around the world.

Published in collaboration with luxury hotel group Belmont, LIGURIA explores key ingredients, people, and histories which make this rugged Italian coastline so irresistible. With an introduction by Ruth Rogers who shares impressions gathered over decades of walking Liguria’s seaside paths and two guest recipes from Fanny Singer and Max Rocha who show how to incorporate Ligurian cuisine into your kitchen, the book features vivid photography by Laura Jane Coulson alongside essays by Andy Baraghani, Corrado Corti, Gilda Bruno and Luca Cesari.

LIGURIA presents 24 classic dishes inspired by the kitchens of Belmond’s hotels in Portofino: Splendido, set in the hills overlooking the bay, and Splendido Mare, down in the piazzetta. We invite you into a magical, transformative land; as Gilda writes, ‘In truth, no one knows Portofino like the sea. Its tides and roaring belly were the only witnesses to the village’s metamorphosis into the most evocative manifestation of Italy’s idealised lifestyle, nonchalant elegance, and sun-drenched, soothing leisure: la dolce vita’.

Apartamento, 176pp, 19cm x 24cm, illustrated hardcover, 2024