Does honey made from different flowers, plants and trees have different flavors?
There are as many kinds of honey as there are flowers out in the world. Bees will harvest whatever flowers you put them near. Italians love chestnut honey, which has a powerful flavor. Classically, it’s served with ham made from pigs who grazed in the chestnut forests. The chestnut flavors in complement each other, and it’s a fascinating and delicious combination. An even more surreal honey is pine honey. Pine trees don’t produce flowers, but the bees harvest honeydew from aphids that drink the pine sap. It’s got a woody, resinous tang, and it’s a classic in Greek dishes, like baklava. Apairists near me produce dozens of exotic honeys: buckwheat, fireweed, butterbean. I’m
