Maeve O'Meara explores the marvellous abundance of Summer vegetables and fruits in dishes from around the world. Tomato Day is the most special day in the Italian Food Calendar and Maeve joins three generations of the Baggio Family in suburban Melbourne as they preserve the goodness of summer with a home-made passata. Italian food legend, Guy Grossi (Grossi Florentino) celebrates the seductive power of the vegetables known as nightshades (eggplant, tomatoes) with a delicious Garganelli Alla Norma. Maeve explores the versatility of the multi-talented eggplant. Iconic chef Tetsuya Wakuda invites us into his art-filled test kitchen to see how his ode to eggplant is created using simple techniques and a range of his favourite ingredients to create braised eggplant with saltbush. Acclaimed young chef Victor Liong (Lee Ho Fook) transforms eggplant into chips with a wicked spicy chilli sauce. Summer is celebrated with an abundance of fresh fruit made into traditional Sicilian gelato by third generation gelato-maker Marco Enea of the Melbourne gelataria Il Melograno who whips up fragrant fresh strawberry gelato.