Howland Blackiston - Honey For Dummies

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1 Chapter 9TABLE 9-1 Honey Flavor Families

2 Chapter 16TABLE 16-1 Honey Replacement Estimator

1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: This little bee (entombed forever in amber) shared the earth with T...FIGURE 1-2: Honey hunter collecting nourishment from a wild colony of bees. FIGURE 1-3: Egyptian beekeepers tend to their clay hives while helpers smoke th...FIGURE 1-4: The discovery of these beehives during the Tel Rehov Expedition sug...FIGURE 1-5: Artist rendering of this 3000-year-old apiary, which was estimated ...FIGURE 1-6: The honey bee, so familiar in the Americas today, is not native to ...

2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: Photo of a worker field bee collecting pollen. Note the pollen bask...FIGURE 2-2: Note the long tongue on this honey bee. It unrolls like a noisemake...FIGURE 2-3: This chart illustrates the typical content of honey (based on data ...FIGURE 2-4: This frame is ready to harvest, as the bees have filled nearly ever...FIGURE 2-5: This illustration shows the anatomy of a typical beehive. The surpl...FIGURE 2-6: These photos show the process for both a hobbyist beekeeper and a c...

3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: This is beautiful, natural honeycomb, just as it comes from the hiv...FIGURE 3-2: Extracted honey is the most common style of honey you see in grocer...FIGURE 3-3: Chunk honey makes for a very appealing presentation in the bottle. FIGURE 3-4: Making top-quality whipped honey is a craft, resulting in a velvety...FIGURE 3-5: Honey straws are another way you may see honey marketed.

4 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Charles Mraz stinging a patient with a live honey bee to deliver be...

5 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: The world’s top ten honey producers. Number 1, China, produces more...FIGURE 6-2: The top ten honey-producing states in the U.S. Number one and numbe...

6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: Palynologist Dr. Vaughn M. Bryant at his microscope.

7 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: This illustration maps the five different tasting zones of the tong...FIGURE 9-2: Honey flavors are actually aromas that vaporize in the mouth and ar...FIGURE 9-3: A simple test for counting the number of taste buds within the area...FIGURE 9-4: Ready for the tasting exercise. You can tell from looking closely a...

8 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: A honey tasting session. FIGURE 10-2: A simple tasting mat like this helps organize your honey samples. FIGURE 10-3: Use the Honey Tasting Notes sheet to write down your evaluations f...

9 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: An Egyptian clay amorpha with hieratic script that identifies hone...FIGURE 11-2: PDO and PGI seals.

10 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: A farmers’ market is a good place to shop for honeys. Chat with th...FIGURE 13-2: The label on these “honeys” are a giveaway that these are not 100 ...FIGURE 13-3: A typical honey nutrition label. FIGURE 13-4: The True Source seal guarantees the honey comes from where it says...FIGURE 13-5: The Fair Trade seal is used on honeys produced in developing count...

11 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: Here are the basic elements of a typical kit for mead making at ho...FIGURE 14-2 A mead-making setup at a commercial meadery.

12 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: A honey and cheese tasting session in progress. FIGURE 18-2: A honey and cheese tasting plate from one of my pairing workshops....

13 Chapter 19FIGURE 19-1: Here's an idea of how to stage a plate of food pairings for each o...FIGURE 19-2: My honey tasting party setup.

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