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Contents

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Thanks

Travels In Blood And Honey

Starting With The Birds, Not The Bees

A Lone Bee

‘Homogenised, Industrialised’: Shopping For Honey In Kosovo

A First Experience Of Honey Served With Albanian Hospitality – And Fli

The Definite Article: Llokuma With Honey

My B-Day

December: ‘the colony is checked only by looking at the hive from outside’

Kosovo’s Chequers: Honey In A Recipe For Social Success

Tomatoes With Honey

Queens Of The May

Golden Circles: My Own Bee-Skeps

Learning To Live Off The Land

Harvesting The First Honey

Holiday Souvenirs: My Own Bee-Suit

Honey And Chewing Gum

Honey For Sale At The Ethnological Museum, Pristina

The Axe That Fell In Honey

When Blood Makes Way For Honey

The Land Of Blood And Honey

Ana’s Slava Baklava

Rite Of Passage

Plum Kompot, And The Soup That Saved Xhezide’s Life

Hazelnuts In Honey For A Ladies’ Night

Advice On How To Eat Honey In The Morning: Independence For Kosovo

Totally Legal: A Honey Cake For Women’s Day

The Honey For The General’s Porridge

On The Trail Of The ‘Primitives’

Honey Fudge In The KLA Heartlands

The Real Bee Queens

Honey Ice-Cream

Unorthodox Easters

Honey For Healing Wounds

The Bees And The Gurabies

Russian Honey Dessert With Moroccan Tea And An Albanian Mangall

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed; The Politics Of The Hive

Finely Chopped Cabbage And Fine Lines

The Honey Leaking Away

Back Matter

Glossary

A Brief Historical Framework

A Note On Pronunciation

Bibliography

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