About this Event
Loria Stern, the founder of Eat Your Flowers, a garden-to-table catering and baking company, joins us to discuss Eat Your Flowers: A Cookbook, which invites readers to cook with botanical ingredients for stunning visuals and delicious flavors―and let your creativity blossom! She‘ll be joined in conversation by Veronica Taylor Black, the head of Godmothers’ Founders Circle and corporate events.
For most of us, Eat your flowers might mean enjoying an edible blossom decorating a restaurant dessert on a night out. For Loria Stern, it’s a way to bring nature into the kitchen, to play with colors and flavors, and to make every dish beautiful. She incorporates natural plant dusts, pressed and fresh blooms, and vibrant herbs and veggies into her cooking for whimsical, gorgeous, and nourishing meals. In this endlessly creative cookbook, she invites you to take advantage of this edible bounty to create your own, providing both her own recipes (and her favorite variations) and the foundational knowledge on how to incorporate botanicals into any dish.
Loria shares how to get brilliantly colorful results from all-natural ingredients, your guide to natural food coloring from plants, such as a gorgeous amethyst spread made from wilted purple cabbage and blended with nuts, which turns bright pink with the squeeze of a lemon. But Loria’s use of botanicals brings value far beyond just the visual―she is skilled at incorporating them in ways that make the most of their true flavors, enhancing each dish in taste as well as aesthetics. Blending freeze-dried raspberries into flour makes her cookie dough a sultry red and gives it a perfect tartness. Breakfasts; appetizers; soups and salads; breads; vegetables; pasta and grains; meat, poultry, and seafood; desserts; and beverages all get floral enhancements, with seasonal recipes.
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Please note: Out of respect for our authors and other guests—and to ensure everyone's safety—the front door will be locked 15 minutes after the event starts.
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This is a ticketed event.
TICKET OPTIONS INCLUDE:
// TICKET + BOOK includes one entry + one copy of the book, which will be handed out at check-in the night of the event.
// TICKET ONLY includes one entry.
// OPENING ACT tickets are lower-priced spots for early birds. They’re limited in number, and when they’re gone, they’re gone, so get them while they last.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
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This event will be hosted in our third-floor loft space, which is only accessible by stairs.
Event venue & nearby stays
Godmothers, 2280 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, United States
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