Honey!!

[leaf]

Hi, Have just got back from Corfu, and have really enjoyed the greek yoghurt and honey, My question is why does it taste so different to our honey as I really cannot stand it usually?
Thanks

[Matheous]

Did u not try a pork steak? That's the only time I have one-is when I'm in Greece. I don't know what's been done to our pork in this country? -I'm blaming the Supermarkets.....but maybe it's the farmers??

Forgive me if u r vegetarian!

I think maybe part of the answer to your question might be the fact that you tasted the local honey.....

[Clanad]

It has all to do with the flowers which the bees are visiting. You may notice, in the stores stocking honey, that there are different shades of color to honey. Each will taste differently in concert with its color and all dependent on the busy bees efforts... Most honey here in the western U.S., at least, comes from clover, since that is the most common flower available. It produces an acceptable, light colored and mild tasting honey. One other determining quality is the inclusion of some of the "beeswax" used by the bees to cover and store the honey. This is usually removed during a heating and centrifuge process, however, honey eaten directly from the "comb" has an entirely different flavor from that packaged commercially...

[leaf]

Hi Matheous,
No I am not Veggie. so you are ok, yes you are quite right the meat in general was excellent out there, the fillet steak just melted in the mouth.

[willowman]

Clanad is right. It is all to do with the flowers the bees use.
In Kephalonia, where I had many holidays, you can smell the wild herbs as you walk along the roads. The predominant one is thyme and so you get wonderful thyme honey.
By the way, I cannot eat cucumber in England, it's very bitter, but I love it in Greece. Probably all in the mind, something to do with being on holiday and thinking things will be better.