14 Flowers You Can Actually Eat (and How to Cook Them)
Flowers give us vibrant bursts of color in our garden and wonderful decorations for special occasions, but it’s easy to forget that they can provide us with sustenance as well. Flowers are plants, and some plants are edible – even tasty. This is why gardeners like Alexis Nicole , known as the Black Gatherer, show us how many flowers we love can also decorate our salad bowl or sauces.
Some flowers have a sweet taste like violas; others are citrus fruits like marigolds. Here are 14 of our favorite edible flowers.