When it's this warm, even my beloved ice-cream can seem too much like hard work. The heat demands something lighter – a silky sorbet, perhaps, or the refreshingly crunchy granita so popular in sweltering Sicily, where they have a bit more practice at dealing with this kind of weather. They come in all sorts of flavours from almond to mulberry, but king of them all is the coffee variety; the ultimate summer pick-me-up.
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