The joys of growing and cooking edible flowers with Carolyn Dunster - Episode 192

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Sarah Raven

Food, Grow, Home & Garden, Arranging, Arts, Cooking, Kitchen, Arrangements, Lifestyle, Vegetables, Eat, Eating, Flower Arranging, Sarah Raven, Planting, Garden, Produce, Gardener, Flowers, Growing, Cook, Leisure, Veg Garden, Home, Gardening

4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Flowers have been used in cooking for centuries, but there’s an art to the edible flower with which many of us are yet to experiment. It’s this art which is central to Carolyn Dunster’s latest book - this episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ sees Arthur Parkinson explore Carolyn’s journey with edibles, the simplest and best varieties to grow yourself, and some marvellous recipe ideas to try at home.In this episode, discover:Carolyn’s first discovery of flowers being edible, and how that...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraban.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange with me, Arthur Parkinson.
0:44.9	This week Sarah is off, but I'm delighted to be interviewing someone who I met a few years ago
0:51.2	at that weird time when it was just coming out of COVID and I met the lovely
0:56.4	Caroline Dunster at the Hay Literature Festival and I don't think me or Caroline really knew
1:02.6	what was going on because Sarah appeared behind us on this huge screen like God and it was at that
1:09.4	awful time where it wasn't a proper audience. Everyone had to be
1:12.2	sat kind of two seats apart. So it was all quite odd. But it was lovely because I was interviewing
1:17.8	her about one of her floral passions, which is dried flowers. And she's written a beautiful
1:22.9	book called about dried flowers. And also before that she wrote one about urban flowers. Because
1:27.2	like me
1:27.6	Carolyn has got quite a small urban garden that is full of plants but her latest book is called
1:33.5	a floral feast and what I love about this is she's skipped doing a cookbook and she's really
1:39.9	focused on celebrating the edible flower which working Sarah, I've known a little bit over
1:46.2	the years, but this book really highlights the abundance and versatility of eating flowers.
1:51.1	So welcome, Carolyn.
1:52.2	Thank you.
1:53.0	It's a beautiful book to get, and I love the fact that on the cover, there's a wonderful
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