Peter Som

The fashion designer is jumping into the culinary world with a new cookbook of inventively delicious dishes. He shares his summer entertaining strategies.

- MIRANDA CROWELL

During more than two decades as a fashion designer, Peter Som has always felt most grounded in the kitchen. “I'd come home from a runway show and start cooking—it was my therapy,” says Peter, who inherited a love of cooking from his mother and grandmother (3). Now he’s leaning into that passion with his first cookbook, Family Style ($40; harpercollins.com).

FLAVORFUL RIFFS