Beauty and Delicious Meals: Flower Recipes and Remedies

Author: Shi Siwei
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book selects over a thousand cooking methods for 32 common edible flowers, serving as a reference for chefs and also for housewives and husbands to try trendy cooking. For the lovely ladies and handsome gentlemen in love, it also offers methods for weight loss, slimming, beauty, and skincare. The book mainly features recipes for Chinese flower dishes, pastries, and beverages, as well as folk remedies. China's flower-eating culture has a long history, with drinking, composing poetry, and admiring flowers being its main components. This book introduces the praises of ancient scholars and literati for admiring and eating flowers, and it can be said that this collection of flower recipes showcases China's significant contribution to the world's culinary culture.
The "flower-eating fever" of the new century
Ancient people's love for eating flowers
Flowers as fragrant and nourishing delicacies
Pollen as a perfect food accompaniment
Flower soups for health and wellness
Flower congee for nourishing and maintaining health
Flower tea that delights the senses
Flower-infused teas for beauty and stress relief
Flower wines to ease worries
"Flower medicines" to soothe the mind
Eating flowers for festive joy
Avoiding flower toxins when eating flowers
Growing flowers yourself for a romantic touch
The rose, the queen of flowers, with its heavenly fragrance
The peony, the queen of flowers, with its exquisite beauty
The rose, the beauty of the West
The azalea, the gem of the flowers
The camellia, the top fragrance of the flowers
The chrysanthemum, the fairy of the flowers
The lily, the fairy of the flowers
The lotus, the lotus of the water
The jasmine, the holy product for beauty
The plum, China's "flower queen"
The winter jasmine, with the fragrance of the plum
The orchid, with its light and elegant fragrance
The white magnolia, fragrant and pure
The yulania, simple and elegant
The gardenia, the beauty of the valley
The spider plant, the beauty of the valley
The impatiens, the beauty with painted fingers
The rose, intoxicatingly fragrant
The gardenia, with its six-petaled fragrance
The gardenia, with its six-petaled fragrance
The hibiscus, with its autumn fragrance
The hibiscus, with its autumn fragrance
The hawthorn, blooming with autumn air
The night-blooming cestrum, with its fragrant flowers
The jasmine, with its high nutrition
The sunflower, the flower that faces the sun
The morning glory, the wild trumpet flower
The peach, with its beauty-enhancing properties
The pomegranate, like a red marble
The guava, white and fragrant
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