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Includes:: from garden to plate: 25 recipes & an A-Z pictorial directory of culinary flora. It provides planning planting & cultivating over 25 edible flower schemes with accompanying recipes. It
Includes:: an illustrated flower directory provides at-a-glance information on over 45 edible flower varieties & their complementary foods. It is a stunning visual guide & informative reference to consult & treasure. It
Includes:: over 400 exquisite colour photographs by Michelle Garrett. Flowers have been used for culinary purposes since earliest times; rose petals have been used to perfume jellies & cakes for centuries & the tiny richly scented ' Parma' violet was a popular flavouring during the Victorian era. Today there is renewed interest in using flowers as ingredients in cooking; their subtle flavours & glorious colours impart an extra dimension to many of our favourite foods. Make a summer punch glow with the brilliant blue borage flower & lift cakes into another realm of flavour with the addition of crystallized roses sugared cowslips or candied primroses. This is a unique gardening guide & recipe collection in one beautifully photographed volume. This title contains over 25 planting schemes that explain in foolproof detail how to plant & cultivate edible flower combinations with accompanying recipes showing how to use the blossoms & petals in the kitchen. Throughout gorgeous colour photographs capture the beauty of the garden in bloom while step-by-step sequences show their culinary potential in the kitchen. Keen gardeners & avid cooks will be thrilled by the imaginative use of flowers outdoors & indoors & will consult this authoritative reference & stunning visual source book for years to come.