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This month we would like to feature an incredible chef and founder of the restaurant India Joze; Jozseph Schultz. The restaurant recently re-opened after 13 years of being closed. Jo is hotter than ever with his new exotic dishes that incorporate the use of tropical flowers, with dishes influenced from India, Thailand and Bali, Africa, South America and the Middle East. Actually, there is not any country he isn’t influenced by. With such unusual dishes as pansy pasta, borage, enoki salads, orchid ice cream and rose cream chicken; these outrageous...

We found an incredible resource for people interested in finding out more about Edible Flowers.  Which flowers can you eat, and which flowers should you avoid? Allegheny County Pennsylvania has an Official Website with an A.C. gardens section (under Parks Deparment) which lists Edible Flowers recipes, and comprehensive list of which flowers are edible and which are not, and some suggested retailers from which you can buy ingredients for your edible flowers recipes. To go to the great resource click HERE.

Depending on your perspective, the little dandelion flowers that dot green lawns with yellow this time of year can be a cheerful sign of warmer days, a pesky weed to be destroyed or, once they’ve transformed into downy orbs, wish-fulfillment predictors. To others, they represent free lunch. Dandelion greens now appear in many supermarkets, but if your lawn isn’t treated with chemicals (or down the street from an industrial site) there’s no reason you can’t pluck and eat the greens growing in your own backyard—in salads, sautéed or wherever you’d use...