About Loria & Eat Your Flowers

Eat Your Flowers started out of Loria Stern’s tiny kitchen, located on an 1890s estate in Montecito, California. Surrounded by an abundance of edible flowers, herbs, and plants growing freely on the grounds, Loria began creating her signature flower-pressed cookies in 2010. What started as an exploration of the edible bounty around her would eventually grow into Eat Your Flowers, which she founded in 2016.

Loria studied medicinal and edible plants throughout her years of culinary training. She didn’t attend culinary school, but received her professional training the hard-knocks way—working long hours in dozens of kitchens and bakeries. A trained visual artist as well, she began bringing these worlds together through food, experimenting with edible botanicals and developing techniques to extract their flavors, manipulate their natural colors, and preserve their inherent beauty.

Loria’s vibrant edible botanical creations have since been celebrated in Vogue, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Oprah, and many others. A chef, baker, botanist, gardener, and artist, Loria first gained recognition as the originator of the botanical pressed cookie and has gone on to create an extensive body of distinctive edible botanical work.

Since its founding in 2016, Eat Your Flowers has grown into a bakery and creative brand rooted in community, sustainability, and a deep respect for nature. Loria grows and harvests many of the botanicals she uses, works alongside farmers to source seasonal and organic ingredients, and implements creative waste-reduction and conservation practices whenever possible.

Through her work, Loria celebrates the nutritional and medicinal value of botanical ingredients alongside their inherent aesthetic beauty. Flowers, herbs, and plants become both ingredient and artistic medium, transformed through Eat Your Flowers into decorative, nutritious, and delicious works of art.

Loria currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.  Loria is available to plan creative menus and cook delicious meals for any occasion - from private events to meal deliveries to special occasion cakes.  Please get in touch and send an email to:

eat@loriastern.com