Photo: Carrie Davenport
erin bunting
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Jo and Erin met at university in 2002 and have always shared a love of cooking and eating. In 2016, after running a successful supper club in their East London home, they moved to Northern Ireland and founded The Edible Flower. The Edible Flower is a supper club, catering company and fledgling cooking & growing school based at their smallholding in rural County Down. Their mission is to enrich their lives and the lives of their customers through the joy of delicious, inspiring, surprising and sustainable food.
Erin is a cook, teacher, recipe developer and edible flower enthusiast. She trained at Ballymaloe Cookery School and is now the head cook at The Edible Flower. Her food is fresh, unpretentious, beautiful, vegetable-focused and inspired by the seasonal produce that Jo grows in their kitchen garden.
Follow Erin on Instagram: @theedibleflower
THE EDIBLE FLOWER
Cookery, 304 pages
Laurence King, 2023
On a seven-acre small holding in rural Northern Ireland, organic gardener Jo Facer and head chef Erin Bunting run fork-to-fork supper club, organic small-holding and fledgling cooking and growing school, The Edible Flower.
In their first cookbook, learn to grow and cook edible flowers with Jo and Erin's delicious recipes inspired by the seasonal produce they grow in their kitchen garden and the wild food they forage from their local shores and hedgerows.
Feast, celebrate and bring people together with over 50 recipes for small plates, mains, desserts, baking, snacks and drinks, at once fresh and flavourful and absolutely stunning to serve.