Robbing the Bees

A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World

By: Holley Bishop

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Paperback | 1 February 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years. Part history, part love letter, Robbing the Bees is a celebration of bees and their magical produce, revealing the varied roles of bees and honey in nature, world civilization, business, and gastronomy.

To help navigate the worlds and cultures of honey, Bishop -- beekeeper, writer, and honey aficionado -- apprentices herself to Donald Smiley, a professional beekeeper who harvests tupelo honey in the Florida panhandle. She intersperses the lively lore and science of honey with lyrical reflections on her own and Smiley's beekeeping experiences. Its passionate research, rich detail, and fascinating anecdote and illustrations make Holley Bishop's Robbing the Bees a sumptuous look at the oldest, most delectable food in the world.

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Bishop's book reads like a novel -- the narrative unfolding like an escapist yarn or film, with Bishop and her bees as the players and the humid fields of Florida as her stage.
-- The Salt Lake Tribune
Holley Bishop's love affair with honeybees combines natural and social history with gastronomy and memoir to produce a delicious reading experience.
-- Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire
With this elegant new book, Holley Bishop joins Sue Hubbell and Edwin Way Teale as one of the most engaging ambassadors to bees we've ever had. Written with grace and wit...as seductive as an open jar of tupelo honey.
-- Robert Michael Pyle, author of Chasing Monarchs

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Introductions	p. 1
Swamp Cache	p. 9
The Bee Master	p. 41
Fear	p. 69
Robbing the Bees	p. 75
Respect	p. 113
Pollination	p. 115
The Sting	p. 139
Arrogance	p. 163
Food, Wine, and Fishing	p. 167
Time	p. 195
Liquid Currency	p. 199
Wax	p. 227
Medicine Ball	p. 253
Gratitude	p. 281
Some Honey Recipes, Old and New	p. 285
Illustration Credits	p. 301
A Final Note	p. 302
Acknowledgments	p. 303
Index	p. 305
A Conversation with Holley Bishop	p. 319
A Few Final Words from Donald Smiley	p. 325
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