A Sicilian cookbook works best when the pantry is visible. Capers, olives, almonds, pistachios, anchovies, wild fennel, citrus, tomatoes, and good olive oil should appear in recipe notes and product photography.
The design should give those ingredients room: full-bleed photos, quiet serif headings, short sidebars, and a recurring substitution box for readers outside Sicily.
The pantry also creates retail logic. Blood orange lip balm, pistachio body butter, and olive-oil soap do not feel random when they echo the same ingredient world.
