The Edible Flower Garden (Edible Garden Series)

The Edible Flower Garden (Edible Garden Series)

Editorial Reviews
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Author Rosalind Creasy has written extensively on edible gardens: The Edible Herb Garden and The Edible French Garden are some of her past titles. The Edible Flower Garden focuses on plants that not only enhance recipes, but also turn the plate into a painting--a visual as well as gastronomic enterprise. For the reader who thinks such things are only for true gourmets or Metropolitan Home magazine aesthetes, one look at the photographs in this book will seduce you. The images are so beautiful and unusual as to be hypnotic: rose petals served as a bowl of ice cream (Rose Petal Sorbet); salads that look like wildflower meadows.

Creasy interviews Alice Waters of Chez Panisse about her use of flowers in meals at her famous Berkeley restaurant; Waters recounts the curious effect cooking with flowers has on diners. "The flowers are a fascination. People really focus on them and are curious." This curiosity stems from a cluster of superstitions: that all flowers are somehow poisonous, that beautiful things should not be touched or consumed, that vegetables are the sturdy, useful plants while flowers are "for show." Reading The Edible Flower Garden, I remembered the summer I forgot to pick my artichokes, and they basked in the sun long after they were ripe. One day I looked out and it was as if a spell had been cast: the ugly green artichoke scales were gone, transformed into blinding purple flowers. Color is always hiding somewhere, and it is wonderful to allow it to flourish, like Creasy does, in places where it is not expected. --Emily White

Washington Post
"The Edible Flower Garden, lists enough edible flowers to fill even a large garden and shares some tempting recipes."

The Edible Flower Garden (Edible Garden Series)

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Book Contents:

1. The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses : How to Grow and Use Over 250 Beautiful and Versatile Plants
2. The Findhorn Garden
3. The Kitchen Garden
4. The Ortho Problem Solver, Sixth Edition (Ortho Problem Solver)
5. The Sweet Life: Reflections on Home and Garden
6. The Ultimate Container Gardener : All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter
7. The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting : The Ultimate Illustrated Reference to Over 3000 of the World's Best Stamps, and a Professional ... and Perfecting a Spectacular Collection
8. Ultimate Rose (American Rose Society)
9. Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
10. Vegetables, Herbs & Fruit: An Illustrated Encyclopedia

Book Contents

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