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Re: banana flower and robinia


Ellly, 

I know that banana flowers are used in Indian and Bangladeshi 
cooking.  When I was in Bangladesh some years ago, a friend of a 
friend made a delicious dish with it for me.  The large flowers, as I'm sure 
you know, have many, many tightly furled petals.  They are sliced 
crosswise like Napa cabbage and then cooked.  I'll look in some of my 
south asian cookbooks for a recipe.   

Two other edible flower asides:

My boyfriend, who grew up in Poland, says that his family gathered 
robinia flowers (they called them acacia but he's showed me the trees 
and they are definitely robinia) and ate them raw in salads.

And, when I lived in Denmark we drank a refreshing non-alcoholic drink made 
from elderberry flowers.   


Rachel Baker
Berkeley, CA
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