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Edible flowers : a global history / Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 814.5 .F5 K55 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirker, Constance L., author.
- Newman, Mary A., author.
- Series:
- Edible
- Edible series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking (Flowers)--History.
- Plants, Edible.
- Cooking (Flowers).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016.
- Summary:
- Why in the world would someone want to eat flowers? And where, and when? Kirker and Newman provide a historical and geographical look at how flowers have been used in cooking. They explore cultural, symbolic and religious aspects, and then serve up a few recipes using some of the flowers covered.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The ancient world
- The Middle Ages to the nineteenth century
- The Victorian era to today
- Asia
- The Mediterranean and the Middle East
- Europe
- The Americas
- Afterword
- Precautions when eating edible flowers
- Flower dinner menu
- Recipes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9781780236384
- 1780236387
- OCLC:
- 944087179
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