The Rose Diva

Are your ready to fall in love in the kitchen while learning to create sweet and savory dishes with the world's most beloved flower-the rose. The Rose Cookbook will transport readers to a place where rose petals meet their botanical relatives in a lively collection of recipes that are sure to be the hit of any celebration. Rose petals breathe new fun and sophistication into tea parties, add romance to dinners, and lend a touch of bed and breakfast charm to Sunday morning brunches!

With 300+ rose recipes from all over the world, The Rose Cookbook is steeped in history and anecdotes, offering cooks of all levels an opportunity to use roses in the kitchen in a fun, exciting, and new way. Always elegant, The Rose Cookbook will inspire and entertain readers-cooks and gardeners alike.

With an expanded section devoted to tea time and entertaining, women and men of all ages will enjoy creating recipes that will surprise and impress party guests, making even the smallest gathering, a memorable occasion! The recipes in The Rose Cookbook can be enjoyed at anytime, and will be equally pleasurable at special occasions, full-blown parties, meals with family, or with a simple cup of tea, enjoyed in peace and solitude.

Readers will learn that botanically, the rose has some health-giving family members including apples, peaches, plums, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and almonds. The author has taken a natural and intuitive approach to combining rose petals and rose flavorings with these fruits in many of the dessert and main course recipes. The end results will show that these related ingredients compliment each other, bringing food and flowers to the table in a creative and beautiful way.

The Rose Cookbook will delight everyone with its wide variety of tantalizing main dishes, sumptuous desserts, elegant tea sandwiches, jams, sauces, beverages and beauty recipes, along with some interesting rose history, anecdotes and quotations. Cooking with roses is fun, and garnishing a dish with rose petals brings joy to the cook, captivates guests, and fascinates children!

The Rose Cookbook, A Treasury of Rose Recipes from Around the World can be purchased at TheRoseDiva.com for $25.00.

Laura will be speaking and signing her wonderful cookbook at the Riverside (CA) Rose Society on May 14 and May 16, 2009.

The Riverside Rose Society, a California non-profit, for public benefit corporation, is affiliated with the American Rose Society, also a non-profit, educational organization. The American Rose Society provides information and various kinds of educational aids to all rose societies and their members on a national level.

Although the main objective of RRS is to broaden the field of study and appreciation of roses, and to teach its members and the public how to select, grow, groom and exhibit roses, the organization is also dedicated to civic projects, such as founding The Rose Garden at Fairmount Park, participating in rose projects at the Riverside Public Library, Riverside Municipal Airport and The Rose Garden Village on Adams Street.

The Society has also donated gifts of roses to other local beautification projects and currently holds pruning demonstrations each January at several locations in the area. In addition, in 2006, the Society launched a humanitarian project utilizing roses to ease the suffering of fellow Americans in the Gulf Coast who lost their homes and gardens to hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The project, headed by RRS member Lee Stevens, is in its third year, and to date, nearly 3,000 roses and over 20,000 letters and cards of encouragement have been shipped to people in the affected region, with the Riverside Rose Society having the distinction of being the only rose society in the United States to launch and maintain such a project. Founder Zelda Lloyd would indeed be proud.

A Rose Diva Mimosa, an American Beauty Martini,,,,how does a Rose Royale sound?

Drinking a rose makes perfect SENCE® Made with the aromatic and flavorful extract of the Kazanlak Rose - the Crown Jewel of Bulgaria, SENCE® is rising in stature and popularity throughout the world.

This elegant nectar, enjoyed regularly as tea by Leonardo DaVinci, SENCE® is now found at five-star hotels, restaurants, spas and exclusive retailers from San Francisco to Paris, Tokyo to Sydney, Montreal to Mexico City, and beyond.

Laura is only one of a very limited number of US based distributors of SENCE®. To be able to taste this extraordinary nectar for yourself, you can order it directly from Laura's website TheRoseDiva.com

Laura's Rose Emporium, found at TheRoseDiva.com is where you can find anything and everything that a true Rose Diva could enjoy. As Laura puts it, "I've gathered hundreds of rosy items in one location just so you can shop "Diva-Style."

When you search through all of the categories of fun, fabulous rose items found at the Rose Emporium, you can select rose-themed jewelry in gold and sterling silver. Indulge in the finest rose perfume, or pamper yourself with lotions, oils, and soaps.

Don't miss the gourmet food section for your rose cooking needs. The book section includes rose care and growing, tea parties, tea rooms, tea parties for children, painting flowers, flower folklore, and many more!

In the house wares section, you'll find a huge selection of rose-themed items that will beautify your home, or make the perfect gift! And just for fun, I've included music, books, and movies starring my favorite Rose Divas!