honey

The tradition of dipping apples into honey to ensure a "sweet" Jewish New Year just got a little pricier this Rosh Hashana. The holiday, which starts at sundown on tonight (Sept. 8), usually features a bowl of honey on the dinner table. A taste of the sweet stuff symbolically means your new year...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and federal marshals have seized 64 drums of honey imported from China tainted with a potent and potentially lethal antibiotic. The FDA says it tested a honey sample and found it contained chloramphenicol, an antibiotic approved only for use in humans with...

The barriers to entry in the craft of beekeeping are almost nonexistent in New York now that the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has voted to allow people to keep bees. Hives are relatively inexpensive: about $150 or $200 for a standard-sized one with queen and workers. You need a spot with morning and midday sun -- in fact, a roof will do.

The United States food supply is more reliable than those found in many other countries, but there are still some common scams to look out for: Consumer Reports found that most "wild salmon" advertised in grocery stores is actually of the less desirable farm-raised variety. A lot of olive oil is...