Here's the recipe from page 100: "it's a hot pasta with a cold tomato and basil sauce, and it's so light and delicate that it's almost like eating a salad....Drop 5 large tomatoes into boiling water for one full minute. Peel and seed and chop. Put into a large bowl with 1/2 cup olive oil, a garlic clove sliced in two, 1 cup chopped fresh basil leaves, salt and hot red pepper flakes. Let sit for a couple of hours, then remove the garlic. Boil one pound of linguine, drain and toss with the cold tomato mixture. Serve immediately.
Nora Ephron is best known s the writer and director of Sleepless in Seattle (with Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks, find it at the library: DVD Sleepless).