Pie may be getting all the buzz, but there’s something even sweeter on food trend lists this year: honey.
Perhaps a reflection of the local food movement, beekeeping is making its mark in urban backyards. Food and Wine magazine reports the Carmel Valley Ranch in California allows guests to check on hives located all over the property, while the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto added a hive high above the city to help pollinate its rooftop garden and keep a steady stock of the hotel’s signature honey ready for chefs to use in sauces and dressings.
If you don’t plan to make bees a part of your backyard oasis, look for local honey in a variety of flavours at better food stores and farmer’s market. Try swapping sugar for some of honey’s natural sweetness in your everyday meals.
For hundreds of recipe ideas, check out the U.S. National Honey Board.
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+ Homemade Honey article from Food and Wine
+ Urban Beekeeping from House and Home
+ U.S. National Honey Board
Carol | Online Flyer Printing
January 26, 2011 at 03:22Mouth-watery honey. It makes me want to eat pancakes now. 🙂
Fritz Arnette
January 28, 2011 at 20:50Intriguing the way you think in regards to 2011 Food Trend: Honey | At Home with Kim Vallee. brbr The only thing that I will think is when you are going to get it done using this method then you will want willing to handle the trouble. brbr Not that this is going to be normal because people are too slack today.