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Enjoy Sweets and Live LongerJune 13, 2011—Bethesda, Maryland
Judy Endicott Manzone remembers her father, “Mr. Endicott” sitting at the kitchen table, reading the bee catalogue, stirring honey into his coffee and saying, “Remember, Judy, honey is the secret to longevity.” Considering he lived to be 97, he just may have been right.
Manzone’s historical narrative, Family Honey: Five Generations of Beekeeping, traces the lives of the Endicott family, many of whom continued the tradition of beekeeping that actually began much earlier. In the 1630s, an ancestor, John Endecott—also a Massachusetts Puritan Governor and avid horticulturist—became a successful farmer using bees that had arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1621.
Over generations, the Endecotts moved to New Jersey, Kentucky and Indiana, and farming was always part of the family history. Manzone picks up the narrative in the 1800s when the honey bee and her grandfather, John Baptist Endicott, moved west to the McKenzie Valley of Central Oregon.
The lives and loves, ups and downs of the Endicott family are lovingly detailed in this clear eyed view of what American beekeeping was all about in those years. Then came Colony Collapse when the bees just seemed to disappear overnight. Manzone provides the reader with a personal look at the trauma this disorder had on beekeepers, the agricultural industry, and the Endicotts. Dr. Eric C. Mussen, Department of Entomology at University of California at Davis wrote a foreword on “Colony Collapse Disorder of Honey Bees” for this publication.
Family Honey also contains recipes for delicious desserts and snacks using honey. “When Grandma asked Granddad to fetch peaches and strawberries from the farm,” reminisces Manzone, “we knew we were in for a treat—her fabulous peach pie.”
Instructions for making beeswax-based lip gloss, hand salve and lotions are also to be found in Family Honey.
Readers who have their own honey-based recipes can join in the fun of the Cooking with Honey Recipe Contest and qualify for some sweet prizes including a custom gift box that includes a beeswax candle, lip gloss and honey-almond soap. Recipes will be judged on: the use of honey as an integral part of the recipe, originality, taste, presentation and ease of preparation. The contest runs from June 8, 2011 to August 31, 2011 with the winners to be announced September 30, 2011. For more information visit www.arrowpub.com/familyHoney.html.
Family Honey: Five Generations of Beekeeping by Judy Endicott Manzone is available on Kindle (and all the platforms it serves), Amazon, OmniLit, NOOK Books and iBookstore.
Website: www.Family-Honey.com
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