BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Faith Andrews Bedford <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:39:10 EDT
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (18 lines)
Hi all -
 
I'm just back from Africa and was fascinated by the smoky taste of African
honey.  I figured that perhaps the extracting method was to crush the comb,
boil it in an open kettle over a wood fire and that, in the process, the wood
smoke was incorporated into the honey (we used to do our maple syrup this way
and the syrup always tasted a bit smokey too).  Then again, perhaps the
flowers from which the bees gather have a smokey essence.  Any African
beekeepers out there who could tell me what this is all about.
 
To those of you who helped put me in touch with a native beekeeper near Bukavu
Congo, thanks.  However, my daughter, Eleanor who is with USAID, was evacuated
from the Congo due to the revolution there and I, alas, had to cut that leg
off my trip.  Had a great time, though, Africa is beautiful and the bombing in
Kenya only made the place safer.  Nairobi is crawling with policemen now!!
 
All best, Faith Andrews Bedford, Tampa and Ivy, VA

ATOM RSS1 RSS2