Bees & Honey - River Cottage Handbook No.19

Beekeeping is surprisingly easy; the bees are the ones that do all the hard work. In Bees & Honey , Rachel de Thample tells you everything you need to know about setting up a hive in both rural and urban locations, keeping happy and healthy bees and harvesting golden pots of honey for use in your kitchen.This practical handbook will enable you to establish a colony of honeybees and understand exactly what is going on inside the hive. You''ll be guided through the bee''s year month-by-month, and be given instructions for sustainably harvesting the products of their hard work. And once you have retrieved your first pot of delicious honey, there are recipes for cakes and buns, sauces and marinades, and drinks and tonics, as well as some creative ideas for using the beeswax.With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and plenty of clear step-by-step photography, this book will be the only one you ever need on the art of keeping bees.>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rachel de Thample has worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal and Peter Gordon. She is the author of More Veg, Less Meat, FIVE, Tonics & Teas and Gifts from the Modern Larder. She's served as Commissioning Editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated and Head of Food for the pioneering organic box scheme Abel & Cole. Rachel is currently runs preserving and fermentation courses at River Cottage in Devon and writes for The Simple Things magazine. She lives in Dorset.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rachel de Thample
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781408873557
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-7355-7
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 132 mm x 204 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: River Cottage Handbook
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau; Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung; Ratgeber > Essen & Trinken > Backen; baking, COOKING / Methods / Baking, Cookery by ingredient, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Natural Foods, Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft, Cookery / food by ingredient, Apiculture (Beekeeping)