Island life

Italian cooking is adored worldwide because it is the food of home, and is therefore, ultimately, comfort food. Comfort food is food that makes you either feel at home, or think of home. It doesn’t matter where you are, or whose home you happen to be in, it just instils in you that warm, fuzzy feeling that you’re somewhere safe, eating something good, and all is not lost.

I am not Italian – not even close – but somehow, Italian food takes me home.

The glory of Italian food, and the reason why it remains so endlessly popular, is that it is essentially home-cooking. Just like Mamma used to make. It’s a crashing cliché, but that doesn’t stop it being true.

So how does the food of Sardinia differ,