Honey

Appears in
Food of the Sun: A Fresh Look at Mediterranean Cooking

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1995

  • About
People get awfully buzzed up about honey. Cool people put it in herbal teas, because it is so natural. It might also just be nice enough to make them palatable, but it is doubtful. A few million years before Tate & Lyle came on the scene, bees brought sweetness to the table as honey — as much a gift today as it was 14,000 years ago, when the earliest painters recorded their industry on cave walls in Spain and Africa. In ages past, when people craved sugar as an antidote to the prevalence of salt, the very word honey became synonymous with generosity, abundance and honesty.