My daughter needs to follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for her health issues. Cane sugar is not allowed but honey, a monosaccharide, is permitted. Because of this we use way more honey in our house than the average person, and I always make a point to buy local honey, usually from the bee keepers who attend my local market (I was the farmers' market manager for ten happy years and continue to shop there.). I do this for all the reasons mentioned in the article, and, yes, I pay more than from the supermarket because you get what you pay for. Raw local honey is worth every penny. It's also fun, as you noted, how much flavor variation there is season to season, bee keeper to bee keeper, and location to location. The segment on honey from the Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, really highlights this in a wonderful way.
My daughter needs to follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for her health issues. Cane sugar is not allowed but honey, a monosaccharide, is permitted. Because of this we use way more honey in our house than the average person, and I always make a point to buy local honey, usually from the bee keepers who attend my local market (I was the farmers' market manager for ten happy years and continue to shop there.). I do this for all the reasons mentioned in the article, and, yes, I pay more than from the supermarket because you get what you pay for. Raw local honey is worth every penny. It's also fun, as you noted, how much flavor variation there is season to season, bee keeper to bee keeper, and location to location. The segment on honey from the Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, really highlights this in a wonderful way.
Thank you for your comments. As you say, you get what you pay for. I'd forgotten about Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. It is indeed a wonderful series.