1.   At my home Loiseau began his summer menu with a cold melon soup seasoned with fresh tarragon and dry sherry.

2.   City Grill pastry chef Bill Lipscomb has stirred up a sensation with his flavored lemonades, now a regular feature of the summer menus.

3.   Finish this light summer menu with a piece of cheese and a chunk of crusty bread or some reasonably priced seasonal fruit.

4.   It gets its thickness from buttermilk and sour cream and it is far and away the most demanded cold soup on her summer menu, she says.

5.   Janet Trefethen of Trefethen Winery serves this as the first course of a summer menu for eight.

6.   The hot, sultry weather there, Frasier says, is perfect for dreaming up summer menus.

7.   With this summer menu, I would serve a French wine, like a red Corbieres from the southwest of France.

8.   With so much on the menu this summer, a few films got buried.