Description

Sweetness and Light is the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the Contemporary cutting edge; from Nepalese honey hunters to urban hives on the rooftops of New York City. Honey is nature in pot, gathered in by bees form many different environments-Zambian rain forests, Midwestern prairies, Scottish moors, and thyme-covered Sicilian mountainsides, to name a few. But honey is much more than just a food, and bees are more than mere insects. The bee is the most studied creature on the planet next to man, and it and its products have been harnessed by doctors, philosophers, scientists, politicians, artists, writers and architects throughout the ages as both metaphor and material.