A jewel-blue cover sets Sicilia by Ben Tish apart from the rest of the cookbooks on the shelf. It’s a new Italian cookbook, based on a restaurant chefs’ recipes from the island of Sicily. Tish goes so far as to call it his love letter to Sicily, and to Italian food too.

And flicking through Sicilia reveals even more saturated photography, all in the same high-contrast aesthetic as the blue cover. From a purely graphic point of view, it’s a ravishing cookbook that speaks of sun-drenched kitchens and dining tables laden with food.