Cooking from the Gourmet's Garden: Edible Ornamentals, Herbs, and Flowers - Softcover

An intriguing alliance by a prolific cookbook writer and a landscape designer presenting recipes featuring ornamental edible plants with savory taste appeal. Many dishes highlight exotic culinary ingredients that should pique the interest of adventurous cooks; included are cardoon, a popular Italian vegetable; chayote, produced on vigorous perennial vines in mild areas; feijoa, fruit borne on a decorative evergreen tree or shrub; and elaeagnus (also called goumi) berries. This sophisticated fare generally focuses on a melding of herbal seasonings with both the familiar and the unusual. Contains a list of resources and also of poisonous plants. Alice Joyce