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Summary: Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food-for centuries the world's only sweetener-for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years. Part history, part love letter, Robbing the Bees is a celebration of bees and their magical produce, revealing the varied roles of bees and honey in nature, world civilization, business, and gastronomy.