Beauty and Delicious Meals -- Flower Recipes and Simple Remedies

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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 those in love, it also offers recipes for weight loss, slimming, beauty, and skincare. The book mainly features the preparation methods of flower dishes, pastries, and beverages in Chinese cuisine, 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 a significant contribution of China 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 nutritious supplements
Edible flowers as excellent accompaniments
Flower soups for health and wellness
Flower porridge for nourishing the body and mind
Flower tea for soothing the soul
Flower-infused drinks for beauty and stress relief
"Flower medicine" for calming the mind
Eating flowers for added joy during festivals
Avoiding flower toxins when eating flowers
Growing flowers yourself for a romantic touch
The rose—The queen of flowers, with unparalleled beauty
The peony—The queen of flowers, with heavenly fragrance
The rose—The beauty of the West
The azalea—The exquisite flower
The camellia—The top-quality fragrant flower
The osmanthus—The first-class fragrant flower
The chrysanthemum—The fairy of flowers
The lily—The celestial flower
The water lily—The lotus of the water
The jasmine—The holy flower for beauty
The plum—China's "flower queen"
The winter jasmine—Fragrant as the plum
The orchid—Fragrant and elegant
The magnolia—Fragrant and pure
The yulan magnolia—Plain yet refined
The olive—The beauty of the valley
The anthericum—The lady of the valley
The impatiens—The beauty touched by flowers
The rose—The intoxicating fragrance
The gardenia—The six-petaled flower with a sweet fragrance
The hibiscus—The flower of the autumn wind
The rose—The flower of the western wind
The crabapple—The flower of the autumn season
The rose—The flower that brings joy
The night-blooming cestrum—The flower that solves grievances
The lilac—The flower that cannot be untangled
The tulip—The flower that treats internal dryness
The cockscomb—The high-nutrient flower
The sunflower—The flower that faces the sun
The morning glory—The wild trumpet flower
The peach—The flower that enhances beauty
The pomegranate—The flower with red marble-like petals
The guava—The white and fragrant flower
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