I love the taste of honey, especially honey with a complexity of flavour that comes from the flower on which is pollenates. Beekeepers will claim that they can taste the flavour of the actual fruit in the honey, although I've never had that experience.
My mother, father, and sister returned from Greece recently and gifted me with this thyme honey, meaning that the bees hung around thyme flowers.
The colour was a lighter yellow and perfectly clear, the flavour complex, with just a hint of blueberry jam and bubble gum. It was great just on its own, or with a lighter cheese.
Apparently the Greeks have a long history of honey, and the nature blesses its lot. And of exceptional quality is honey coming from thyme. From honey-health.com:
"The solemn and prominent part honey played in the history of Greece is conclusively proven by its mythology. Ambrosia, the food, and nectar, the drink of the gods, were made of honey. The Iliad (XI. 630) refers to honey as the food of kings. The honey of Mt. Hymettus was a daily food of Athens. This mountain was covered with odoriferous wild flowers, principally thyme, and the air was scented with the fragrance of the blooms. The bees were partial to these hills. Ancient Attica, with its area of forty square miles, recorded twenty thousand hives during the time of Pericles (429 B.C.). All ancient Greek authors praised the medicinal and nutrimental value of Attic honey, "the crowning dish of all feasts." The oldest ruins in the rural districts of Greece are buildings which originally housed the hives. These stone edifices were built high, to outwit the cunning of the bears, arch enemies of bees and bosom friends of honey."
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