The World Atlas of Honey

About the Book

Showcases the wonderful world of honey from hive to jar.

A beautifully illustrated global survey of the flavor of honey, The World Atlas of Honey includes profiles of more than eighty countries and the botanical sources of honey found in each. With text, illustrations, and photos, honey expert C. Marina Marchese takes readers through the global history of honey production from the earliest beekeepers to today's harvests.

This colorful guide celebrates the exceptional range and diversity of honey, revealing how terroir—the environment in which a food is produced—influences honey's qualities just as it does for wine, olive oil, coffee, and chocolate. The book also covers the methods used by honey sommeliers to taste and evaluate honey. Unique and authoritative, The World Atlas of Honey puts honey on the culinary map and elevates it to an epicurean treasure.

About the Author

C. Marina Marchese is the international best-selling author of The Honey Connoisseur, Honey for Dummies, and Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper. She is a docent for the Italian National Register of Experts in the Sensory Analysis of Honey, where she received her formal training. In 2013, she established the American Honey Tasting Society, an educational organization that teaches the Italian methods of honey sensory analysis. Marina's website is honeysommelier.com, and she can be found on social media @honeysommelier.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: the story of honey

PART ONE

The World of Honey

The sweet art of honey

The honey harvest

The terroir of honey

Taste honey like a sommelier

Tasting notes: flavors and flowers

Defects in honey

Honey fraud

Health, medicine, and beauty

Sourcing honey

Honey in cooking

Honey and cheese

PART TWO

The Atlas of Honey

NORTH AMERICA

Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica

SOUTH AMERICA

Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay

EUROPE

Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Baltic States, Ukraine

AFRICA

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar

ASIA

Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Russia, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia

OCEANIA

Australia, New Zealand, Pitcairn Island

Further reading

Index

Picture credits

Acknowledgments

This is a 272 page hardbound book.