June 29, 2026

For Adrienne Lufkin, a longtime Litchfield County resident, summer means Nantucket—and Nantucket means the Golden Hour. That brief, radiant window when the sun begins its descent and water, sky, and sand dissolve into a single amber glow is the heartbeat of her new cookbook, Savor the Golden Hour, a love letter to the island and the easy, elegant meals that mark its long summer evenings.

Like so many in our region, Lufkin knows the rhythm of hosting friends and family through the warm months: the impulse to feed everyone beautifully, and the equally strong impulse to actually sit down and enjoy it. Savor the Golden Hour is built around that tension. The recipes are designed to be made ahead, to multiply into the next day’s lunch, and to leave the cook free to pour a glass of wine and watch the sky turn. An Everyday Balsamic Dressing pulls double duty as a marinade. Grilled vegetables become tomorrow’s pizza topping. Breakfast Bread Pudding moonlights as dessert, then quietly reappears at breakfast.

Lufkin, the founder of Struesli, the organic superfood granola brand, brings the same balance of approachability and refinement to every page. The result is a cookbook that travels well from a Nantucket porch to a Litchfield County kitchen— one that quietly reframes summer cooking as something to be enjoyed, not endured.