good enough to eat Roses are...sweet and pansies peppery.(Dig/Colorado Gardening)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: June 2, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Karen Mitchell, Special to the News

We give them as tokens of affection, clutch their bundled stems as we walk down the aisle and bask in their scents and beauty.

Now let's eat them.

Cooking with edible flowers dates back more than a thousand years in cuisines from India to Egypt, China to England, says Jon Pell, executive chef/owner of award-winning Sunflower Restaurant in Boulder.

Most edible flowers have subtle flavors, he says. "The most commonly known are pansies, lavender, nasturtiums, hibiscus, jasmine and saffron, which is hand-picked from the ...

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