A friend of Wren's was kind enough to bring us honey from his travels in Syria last month. I haven't tasted the honey yet, but fell in love instantly with the honeybee-related art on the bag.
The jar on the bottom is from Syria. The jar on top (described on the label as containing "flower honey") is from Turkey.
See more jars of honey from around the world.
"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people—a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance."—Wm. Longgood, The Queen Must Die
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