Winter 2008 Gift Guide

There’s never been a better time to give.

The Year in Food 2006

From bad spinach to exploding lattes: The tastiest moments of 2006.

I must have made my garden habitable for bees because I now have a small hive growing on a palm frond. It’s only about an inch by 2 inches. It’s growing in segments like a honey comb, so I’m assuming its a bee...

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Obsessives: The Bee Whisperer

A beekeeper is like a good host: Make everybody happy, and the party will take care of itself.

Sour News About Honey

The sad American honeybee situation has gotten slightly better this year—emphasis on “slightly.”

Even urbanites can get in on relief efforts.

Trend-O-Meter Says: Honey Is In (9/14/09)

Rustic and tasty, it hearkens back to a more innocent time.

, including rheumatic joints and a sore back. A Seminole neighbor of his (this was the early '60’s) recommended raw honey and even the stings of live bees on his joints to ease the pain and stiffness. He said it was a little...

For local flavor Amy Ruth’s on 116th sells honey from bees on their roof.

I love 0% Fage Yogurt drizzled with honey. I have tried various honeys (local, buckwheat, lights and darks) and still I prefer the very available Sue Bee Orange Blossom. Are there others that you love that I should try?

bee parts still in it. Not for me! I just made some hot cocoa from scratch and used honey instead of sugar. It was very tasty.

The Grinder’s own Nicholas Day unpacks the growing minicraze for mead in a thoughtful piece in Slate.

. Honey produced near where you live has long been considered a great help in combating allergies. When we kept bees at home here in OK (just for our own use, not commercial) we often had requests from allergy sufferers who took...

Yesterday at my local farmer’s market, I noticed an unfamiliar product sold by one of the honey-sellers: bee pollen! It looks like tiny yellow and brown pebbles. What does one do with bee pollen? Any recipes? I felt like...

Covered Apple cake