November 9th, 2011 By Katja Jylkka
In both the popular imagination and ad campaigns, honey is the epitome of a wild food. After all, bees can’t be herded and overfed like cattle, or immobilized like broiler chickens if they are to continue making the sweet substance. As reported here last year, bees are “a key to global food security” due to their critical importance in food chains worldwide. In fact, honey seems to be a bellwether of global food insecurities. Read More
Tags: bees, CCD, China, honey, labeling, smuggling, trade
February 25th, 2009 By Paula Crossfield
I’ve always admired honeybees for their elegant cooperation, and of course because they make more honey than they need out of sheer industriousness, which I love to eat. So I was excited when I heard that I could learn to keep bees myself, in the city. (after the jump: how to build a hive) Read More
Tags: beekeeping, beekeeping legalization, class, hive building, honey, how-to, new york city
August 4th, 2008 By Paula Crossfield
“As the principal source of intense sweetness for humankind until the mastery of the crystallization of sucrose, honey has carried an immense symbolic, mythic, and psychological load. This has been conditioned in part by the somewhat mysterious nature of its production, as a by-product of the survival of plant-species by insect pollination” (Sydney Mintz, 1996). Read More
Tags: honey, local food, recipe, taste pavilion
