Liz Knight – författare

Brew up your own wild concoctions to enjoy through the seasons.The book celebrates year-round foraging and feasting. Soothing winter warmers and delicate botanical teas join energy-boosting tonics and zingy summer coolers in its beautiful pages. Liz Knight’s expertise and enthusiasm – familiar to viewers of numerous BBC TV shows including Saturday Live and Escape to the Farm – are truly infectious, and her readers will soon be happily gathering their own wild harvest. She includes step-by-step instructions for the basic processes for making different types of drink, including wines, beers, fermented drinks, teas, coffees, juices, tinctures and tonics – so you'll never go thirsty!

Though there has been somewhat of a renaissance for cooking with edible flowers, they have largely been relegated to adorning cakes and sweets; Buds and Blossoms shows that their culinary potential is so much greater than that.  Liz Knight seeks to reinvigorate our love for cooking with edible flowers through her incredible recipes and engaging writing style. She includes 20 different flowering plants, all of which are easily sourced, and takes us on a delicious journey through more than 100 recipes from Rose Arrabiata and Magnolia leaves with Aubergine and Miso to Lilac Lemon Possets as well as a Marigold Martini. The versatility of the flowers Liz includes here is astonishing and you’ll be amazed by how many different sorts of dishes will be enhanced by them.  Woven throughout the book are Liz’s insightful potted histories which detail fascinating culinary journeys, bringing context and colour to the dishes she’s collected in this volume. Alongside beautiful photography, you’ll learn how to see these plants anew, for the transformative ingredients they can truly be.