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Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion
Here’s a one-of-a-kind guide to the flowers you can eat and use in cooking. In this beautifully illustrated volume the adventurous cook can find all the savory and decorative flowers needed for cooking with color and inventiveness. With full-color photographs for identification and recipes for everything from drinks to desserts, EDIBLE FLOWERS is a lovely and useful resource for any kitchen.
80 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1995
About the author
Kitty Morse
22 books7 followersPart history, part memoir, part cookbook, Bitter Sweet
Bitter Sweet, is the telling of a family's journey through WWII, from three perspectives: A tale of discovery of the author's great-grandfather's diary, written in occupied France in 1940 and the genealogical archival research it engendered; entries from the author's great-grandfather, Dr. Prosper Levy's, daily journal detailing the Nazi occupation of northern France; and heirloom recipes from his wife, Blanche's, family kitchen.
ABOUT KITTY MORSE
https//www.kittymorse.com
Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca of a French mother and British father, and emigrated to the United States in 1964. She obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
She is the author of ten other cookbooks, five of them on the cuisine of Morocco and North Africa, including the award-winning Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (10 printings from Chronicle Books) and The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco (co-authored with Danielle Mamane).Her memoir with recipes, Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories, and its French translation, Le Riad au Bord de l'Oued, were both recipients of a Gourmet Word Cookbook Award.
Kitty’s career as a food writer, cooking teacher, and lecturer spans more than three decades. Her articles on food and travel have appeared leading publications including Bon Appetit (the magazine featured one of her menus as Moroccan Cuisine: Cuisine of the Year), and Sunset's "Best Chefs of the West." She has lectured on Moroccan cuisine and culture at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the University of Wisconsin libraries, and continues do to so around Southern California. She initiated gastronomic tours to her native Morocco in 1983, and continued to do so for over 23 years.
She has appeared on the Food TV Network, CNN, the Discovery Channel, as well as on British, Mexican, and Moroccan television. One of the highlights of her career was cooking alongside Julia Child to benefit the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She and her husband Owen have been residents of Vista since 1979. Visit https://www.kittymorse.com.
Bitter Sweet, is the telling of a family's journey through WWII, from three perspectives: A tale of discovery of the author's great-grandfather's diary, written in occupied France in 1940 and the genealogical archival research it engendered; entries from the author's great-grandfather, Dr. Prosper Levy's, daily journal detailing the Nazi occupation of northern France; and heirloom recipes from his wife, Blanche's, family kitchen.
ABOUT KITTY MORSE
https//www.kittymorse.com
Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca of a French mother and British father, and emigrated to the United States in 1964. She obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
She is the author of ten other cookbooks, five of them on the cuisine of Morocco and North Africa, including the award-winning Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (10 printings from Chronicle Books) and The Scent of Orange Blossoms: Sephardic Cuisine from Morocco (co-authored with Danielle Mamane).Her memoir with recipes, Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories, and its French translation, Le Riad au Bord de l'Oued, were both recipients of a Gourmet Word Cookbook Award.
Kitty’s career as a food writer, cooking teacher, and lecturer spans more than three decades. Her articles on food and travel have appeared leading publications including Bon Appetit (the magazine featured one of her menus as Moroccan Cuisine: Cuisine of the Year), and Sunset's "Best Chefs of the West." She has lectured on Moroccan cuisine and culture at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the University of Wisconsin libraries, and continues do to so around Southern California. She initiated gastronomic tours to her native Morocco in 1983, and continued to do so for over 23 years.
She has appeared on the Food TV Network, CNN, the Discovery Channel, as well as on British, Mexican, and Moroccan television. One of the highlights of her career was cooking alongside Julia Child to benefit the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). She and her husband Owen have been residents of Vista since 1979. Visit https://www.kittymorse.com.
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March 12, 2025
Nice little book. Includes 1 recipe for each flower. If you like sugar and alcohol, you will probably like some of the recipes in this book. To my relief, not all of the recipes are sugary or alcohol-based.
It's a good introduction to eating flowers.
It's a good introduction to eating flowers.
June 24, 2020
Very colorful with unique edible flower recipes for food and drink. Can hardly wait to try them.
February 27, 2013
love this little book to carry out in the woods to see what i can use to cook with. so much fun!. everyone should have a copy of this in their kitchen esp if the economy gets where we are forceed to live on the land.
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