The ancient Greeks called mead the “nectar of the gods.” Since honey has antioxidant and antimicrobial properties; mead was also used in ancient India and China and has been used ever since by many cultures. Famous mead was made by monks in European monasteries and Queen Elizabeth the 1st had her own mead recipe. Today, mead […]
Songs about Honey (and HoneyMoon)
Many songs are about ‘Honey’ as well as ‘Honeymoon’ – a 16th-century word described in the Oxford Dictionary as a word that originally denoted the period of time following a wedding – from honey and moon, and generally describes the first month after marriage.
Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle rose attracts bees and helps them make wonderful honey. Click here to listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing Honeysuckle Rose with Count Basie’s Orchestra. Soon, we will have a recording of Bill Coggshall on the trumpet playing (trumpet) Honeysuckle Rose.