Whether drizzled into our tea or spread atop our terms of endearment, there's
one thing that is always true about honey: it is sweet. As Lucy M. Long shows in
this book, while honey is definitely the natural sweetener par excellence, it
has a long history in our world as much more, serving in different settings as a
food, tonic, medicine, and even preservative. It features in many religions as a
sacred food of the gods. In this luscious history, she traces the uses and
meanings of honey in myriad cultures throughout time.
Long points to a crucial fact about honey: it can be enjoyed with