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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey - Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced World
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey - Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced World
Current price: $20.99
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey - Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced World
Current price: $20.99
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Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food for centuries the world's only sweetener for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years. Part history, part love letter,
is a celebration of bees and their magical produce, revealing the varied roles of bees and honey in nature, world civilization, business, and gastronomy.
To help navigate the worlds and cultures of honey, Bishop beekeeper, writer, and honey aficionado apprentices herself to Donald Smiley, a professional beekeeper who harvests tupelo honey in the Florida panhandle. She intersperses the lively lore and science of honey with lyrical reflections on her own and Smiley's beekeeping experiences. Its passionate research, rich detail, and fascinating anecdote and illustrations make Holley Bishop's
a sumptuous look at the oldest, most delectable food in the world.