Flowers, Cooking with

Make sure they haven’t been treated w pesticides and are free from bugs. Bergamot (good w poultry, pork and curries), calendula (peppery), dianthus or pink (spicy and clovelike), hollyhock (mildly flavored), nasturtium (peppery flavor; the flower, leaf and seeds are all edible); carnation (clovelike), marigold (citrusy and pleasantly bitter), violet (slightly wintergreen) and dandelion (bitter); baby rosebuds; geranium leaves