The Scented Kitchen: Cooking with Flowers

Using flowers in the kitchen is growing fast in popularity, and Frances Bissell's gloriously inventive recipes allow readers to move beyond mixing a few nasturtium petals into a salad to enjoy the scents and flavours of a wide variety of wild and garden flowers including lavender, elderflower, fennel, roses, marigolds, violets and jasmine. By flavouring basic ingredients, she helps the cook to transform other dishes - elderflower vinegar, for example, lifts an ordinary green salad to the le...