Why a honey recipe book?
Because nothing could be sweeter! Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, pies, puddings, and cakes that feature honey as an essential ingredient. Collecting recipes from hundreds of cookbooks, noted entomologist May Berenbaum also details the fascinating history of honey harvesting and consumption around the world, explains the honey bee’s extraordinary capacity to process nectar into concentrated sweetness, and marvels at honey’s diverse flavors and health benefits. Honey is a unique food because of its power to evoke a particular time and place. Every time it is collected from a hive, honey takes on the nuanced flavors of a particular set of flowers–clover, orange blossoms, buckwheat, or others–at a certain point in time processed and stored by a particular group of bees. Honey is not just a snapshot of a time and place–it’s the taste of a time and place, and it lends its flavo
