Description
Did you know:
- This recipe is based on the one developed by the legendary New York pie purveyors Four & Twenty Blackbirds.
- Foraging bees have to fly about 150,000 km to produce 1 kg of honey, visiting around 2.7 million flowers.
- “Salt was so valuable in ancient Rome that soldiers were sometimes paid with it. In fact, the word ‘salary’ comes from the Latin word sal, for salt. When a soldier was doing a lousy job, his pay cheque might be cut, which is how we got the expression “not worth his salt”.”
References:
- https://www.apicolturalaterza.com/en/how-many-flowers-does-it-take-to-produce-one-kg-of-honey
- https://www.readersdigest.in/odds-and-ends/story-12-amazing-facts-about-salt-124875
