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"An already acclaimed cookbook by James Beard award winning chef Frances Bissell setting out the techniques and recipes for the use of flowers in the kitchen. While the use of flowers in cookery is becoming ever more popular, they often feature as little more than decoration. In The Fragrant Pantry, the third volume of an already acclaimed trilogy, Frances Bissell shows us how the scent and flavor of flowers can be used like that of an herb or a spice to add magic to a range of dishes. In these pages you will find recipes for preserves as diverse as myrtle-scented figs, peach and lavender mostarda, rum and jasmine mincemeat, wild garlic flower pesto, mango, jasmine and lime kulfi, elderflower, cucumber and lemon gin and ""gorgeous gillyflower grappa."" You will also discover how the delicate taste of rose petals can transform raspberry ice cream. And you will learn the way in which fresh edible flowers or floral extracts can be used to create exquisite preserves. For Frances Bissell cooking with flowers is not a fad or a fashion, but a natural way of cooking which reflects the seasons, and which owes much to English culinary traditions going back over centuries. These easy-to-follow recipes allow both the experienced and novice cook to experiment with floral cooking with real confidence."

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Praise for The Fragrant Pantry Dreamily elegant --Carolyn Hart, The Independent Full of well researched history, excellent common sense and utterly beguiling recipes. --Catherine Phipps, Fire and Knives A bouquet of fragrant delights ... there is much here to discover and delight. --New Zealand House and Garden A range of unexpected delights --Sunday Express Excellent --Daily Telegraph Praise for The Scented Kitchen Enchanting --Raymond Blanc Floral cooking gets an outing from time to time, but rarely so thoroughly or creatively as here. --Tom Jaine, The Guardian Praise for The Floral Baker 'All the pleasures of the kitchen and garden in one delightfully fragrant book. Frances Bissell's recipes are outstanding, brilliant in their simplicity and originality. A must for every baker s bookshelf.' --Fiona Cairns

Praise for The Fragrant Pantry <p/> Dreamily elegant --Carolyn Hart, The Independent <p/> Full of well researched history, excellent common sense and utterly beguiling recipes. --Catherine Phipps, Fire and Knives <p/> A bouquet of fragrant delights ... there is much here to discover and delight. --New Zealand House and Garden <p/> A range of unexpected delights --Sunday Express <p/> Excellent --Daily Telegraph <p/> Praise for The Scented Kitchen <p/> Enchanting --Raymond Blanc <p/> Floral cooking gets an outing from time to time, but rarely so thoroughly or creatively as here. --Tom Jaine, The Guardian <p/> Praise for The Floral Baker <p/> 'All the pleasures of the kitchen and garden in one delightfully fragrant book. Frances Bissell's recipes are outstanding, brilliant in their simplicity and originality. A must for every baker s bookshelf.' --Fiona Cairns

Praise for The Fragrant Pantry: Dreamily elegant --Carolyn Hart, The Independent Full of well researched history, excellent common sense and utterly beguiling recipes. --Catherine Phipps, Fire and Knives A bouquet of fragrant delights ... there is much here to discover and delight. --New Zealand House and Garden A range of unexpected delights --Sunday Express Excellent --Daily Telegraph Praise for The Scented Kitchen: Enchanting --Raymond Blanc Floral cooking gets an outing from time to time, but rarely so thoroughly or creatively as here. --Tom Jaine, The Guardian Praise for The Floral Baker: 'All the pleasures of the kitchen and garden in one delightfully fragrant book. Frances Bissell's recipes are outstanding, brilliant in their simplicity and originality. A must for every baker s bookshelf.' --Fiona Cairns

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The first woman chef to be elected to the Academy of Culinary Arts in 1997, FRANCES BISSELL has been guest chef in some of the world's leading hotels and restaurants, including the Café Royal in London, and the George V in Paris. A lecturer, broadcaster, and TV presenter, she is the author of many books and was the Times' (of London) food writer for thirteen years. She has been the recipient of the Glenfiddich Award for Cookery Writer of the Year in Britain and the James Beard Foundation Award in the United States for her Book of Food.

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