Some exotic

Today I want to write about a new fruit that I ate two days ago. My boyfriend, Nico, gave me to taste a “Feijoa” or a “brazilian gayaba”. It´s small and the taste is similar to a kiwi: it´s very acid but sweet at the same time. I surprised when he told me that his family didn’t buy it in the supermarket, but in the “feria”. I thought that feijoas could be expensive, but they are not.

From this I wonder about others exotic foods and I remembered that some chefs are using flowers on their preparations. Yes, real flowers! From rose petals, begonias, hooded, magnolia, jasmine, orange blossom, lavender, mint, lotus, zucchini, marjoram, violets, between others, can appear in your lunch. There are flowers to drink, for example like wine or tea, and flowers to eat, like appetizers or desserts. You can use it from sushi to creams, salads, sauces, jams, jellies and even mousses.

Besides the colors, flowers give other food savors. For example, roses are bitter and begonias are acidic. Some people consider that flowers are elegant and can make of a simple food to a special food. For me, it’s something weird that flowers can be in a cake, like in this image:

What do you think? Would you eat a flower?