A nearly half page article comparing five honey gift packages appeared in
the Wall Street Journal 8-23-02.  The samplers, each containing several
varietals, cost from $14 for four 4-ounce bottles to $45 for six 1-ounce
vials (sic).  The producers, Rock Cheese & Honey, Stonewall Kitchen, Dutch
Gold Honey, Huguel, and Silverbow Honey, were evaluated on taste,
packaging, and ease of ordering.  Rock Cheese & Honey was declared the best
(clover, buckwheat, oarnge blossom, wild flower), with the corked, hipped,
4-ounce bottles favored.
The article maintains that 300 types of honey are being produced.  Hard to
imagine that many isolated patches of nectar; is there substantiation for
this assertion?

MEA McNeil