Honey, I'm Homemade (eBook, ePUB)

Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World
Redaktion: Berenbaum, May

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, pies, puddings, and cakes that feature honey as an essential ingredient. Noted entomologist May Berenbaum also details the fascinating history of honey harvesting and consumption around the world, explains the honey bee's extraordinary capacity to process nectar into concentrated sweetness, and marvels at honey's diverse flavors and health benefits._x000B__x000B_More than a cookbook, Honey, I'm Homemade is a tribute to the remarkable work of Apis mellifera, the humble honey bee whose pollination services allow three-quarters of all flowering plant species to reproduce and flourish. Sales of the book will benefit the University of Illinois Pollinatarium--the first freestanding science outreach center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators._x000B__x000B_Because so much depends on honey bees, and because people have benefited from their labors for millennia, Honey, I'm Homemade is the perfect way to share and celebrate honey's sweetness and delight.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252090042
• Artikelnr.: 40007028

Autorenporträt

May Berenbaum is Swanlund Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her other books include Ninety-Nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers; Ninety-Nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers; Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs; Buzzwords: A Scientist Muses on Sex, Bugs, and Rock 'N' Roll; and The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends.