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Elizabeth Gowing

Auteur de Travels in Blood and Honey

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http://www.mytwostotinki.com/?p=527

This is a small and nice book for all who love honey - and who doesn't?

The Little Book of Honey consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, the reader learns about different honeys from different flowers and from different origins (including such interesting varieties as coriander honey, carob flower honey, thistle honey, or asphodel honey, to name just a few).

The second part is a collection of different recipes for all kind of breads and biscuits and for teatime. If you always wanted to know how to make your own challah, or Yemeni honey bread, or baklava, or tiessennau mel (welsh honey muffins), or if you are just curious to know what you can do with honey, you will indulge in this chapter for sure.

The third chapter, ingeniously named miscell-honey, explains some additional uses of honey: as an ersatz for sugar, as an ingredient of a face cream, as a basis for mead, and others.

The small compact format and the beautiful illustrations by Su Jones and Paddy McEntaggart make it a pleasure to touch the book or to look at it. Elizabeth Gowing, the author of a book on bee keeping in Kosovo (Travels in Blood and Honey) and of a book about the British traveler Edith Durham (Edith and I), has written this delightful book.
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Mytwostotinki | 1 autre critique | Dec 14, 2015 |
http://www.mytwostotinki.com/?p=527

This is a small and nice book for all who love honey - and who doesn't?

The Little Book of Honey consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, the reader learns about different honeys from different flowers and from different origins (including such interesting varieties as coriander honey, carob flower honey, thistle honey, or asphodel honey, to name just a few).

The second part is a collection of different recipes for all kind of breads and biscuits and for teatime. If you always wanted to know how to make your own challah, or Yemeni honey bread, or baklava, or tiessennau mel (welsh honey muffins), or if you are just curious to know what you can do with honey, you will indulge in this chapter for sure.

The third chapter, ingeniously named miscell-honey, explains some additional uses of honey: as an ersatz for sugar, as an ingredient of a face cream, as a basis for mead, and others.

The small compact format and the beautiful illustrations by Su Jones and Paddy McEntaggart make it a pleasure to touch the book or to look at it. Elizabeth Gowing, the author of a book on bee keeping in Kosovo (Travels in Blood and Honey) and of a book about the British traveler Edith Durham (Edith and I), has written this delightful book.
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Mytwostotinki | 1 autre critique | Dec 14, 2015 |
Leaves the reader wanting to visit Kosovo...and wanting a honey yoghourt!, October 8, 2014

This review is from: Travels in Blood and Honey (Paperback)
An enjoyable read, following the author's two years in Kosovo, where her husband was adviser to the prime minister, just prior to independence.
In the early days, the language makes life a challenge, but soon she is making friends and doing charity work. Plus she begins a new hobby after she receives a beehive as a birthday gift...As she becomes familiar with Kosovan society, she writes on many different aspects of it - from the place of women to bloodfeuds. And includes numerous recipes and b/w photos.
Books on recently war-torn parts of the world can sometimes be heavy-going and full of politics; this book doesn't shy away from describing these events in the course of conversations with her acquaintances, but they don't overshadow the country, the people and the bees.
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starbox | Oct 8, 2014 |
Biography and History > Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina ? Croatia ? Kosovo ? Montenegro ? Macedonia ? Serbia ? Slovenia) > Europe > Geography, Voyages And Travel > Other European Countries > Serbia; Montenegro; Kosovo
 
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FHQuakers | Feb 12, 2018 |

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