Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This
book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land
of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of
honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a blind date with
the place , when her partner is suddenly offered the position of
adviser to Prime Minister Agim Ceku. Knowing nothing of the
language or politics, she is thrown into a world of unpronounceable
nouns, unfamiliar foods and bewilderingly hospitable people. On her
first birthday in Kosovo she is given a beehive as a gift, and
starts on a beekeeping apprenticeship with an unknown family;
through their friendship and history she begins to understand her
new home. Her apprenticeship leads her to other beekeepers too:
retired guerrilla fighters, victims of human trafficking, political
activists, a women's beekeeping group who teach her how to dance,
and the Prime Minister himself. She dons a beekeeper's veil, sees
the bees safely through winter, manages to use a smoker, learns
about wicker skeps, gets stung, harvests her honey and drizzles it
over everything. In between, she starts working at Pristina s
forgotten Ethnological Museum, runs a project in a restored stone
house below the Accursed Mountains and falls in love with a country
she had known only as a war. Travels in Blood and Honey charts the
author s journeys through Kosovo's countryside and its urban
sprawl, its Serbs and Albanians, its history and heartache, its
etymology and entomology, its sweet and its unsavoury. Describing
new ways of living, and many new ways of cooking, the book contains
traditional recipes, and the flavours of Turkish coffee, chestnut
honey, and the iconic food called fli. It is a celebration of
travel, adventure and the new tastes you can acquire far from home.
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