The Edible Flower Garden by Creasy, Rosalind

The Edible Flower Garden (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789625932934)

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Format: Paperback
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The Edible Flower Garden by Creasy, Rosalind

The Edible Flower Garden

$16.95
The Edible Flower Garden by Creasy, Rosalind

The Edible Flower Garden

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening and cooking book.

Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Among them, you'll find more familiar food plants--dill and mustard, for example--in addition to common flowers, such as tulips or roses. Author Rosalind Creasy's stunning photography and detailed plans for an edible flower garden make this a must-have book for any flower gardener or home chef.

Come along with Creasy on a tour with colorful pictures and careful diagrams and descriptions of her own flower gardens. Included is a tour of the edible flower gardens of Alice Waters famed Chez Panisse restaurant.

Creasy catalogues each variety of flower and how to grow it, plus gives a myriad of delectable ideas on how to use the flower from candied violets and roses to decorate appetizers and cakes, to nasturtiums for a colorful shrimp salad, to daylily buds, pink clover and wild mustard flowers that are tossed together in a spectacular stir-fry.

Favorite Recipes Include:
  • Flower Butters
  • Candied Flowers
  • Tulip and Endive Appetizer
  • Pineapple Sage Salsa
  • Rose Petal Syrup
  • Lavender Ice Cream
  • And much more...


Author: Rosalind Creasy
ISBN-10: 9625932933
ISBN-13: 9789625932934
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1999
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.70d
By Rosalind Creasy
By Rosalind Creasy
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Rosalind Creasy, a resident of Los Altos, California, is a landscape designer and leading authority on appropriate gardening techniques as well as a widely published garden writer and popular lecturer. Creasy specializes in residential landscapes that include edible, native, and drought-tolerant plants. She is a winner of the Garden Writers of America's award for excellence, and her articles have appeared in Organic Gardening, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Country Living Gardener, and Horticulture magazines. In addition to Cooking from the Garden, Creasy is the author of Earthly Delights: Twelve Distinctive Theme Gardens, The Gardener's Handbook of Edible Plants and a book for young gardeners, Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes. Her Complete Book of Edible Landscaping received a Garden Writers Association of America's award and has become a contemporary gardening class

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