“Nobody ever asks about that!” says Daniel Sullivan, owner of Shipwreck Honey in Seattle, his gleaming impishly behind black plastic-frame glasses. I beam with equal enthusiasm; I’ve been on a quest ...

“I’m coming down from my propolis high,” Sarah Grueneberg said shortly after we arrived at Spiaggia. She and her staff had been experimenting with the pungent bee byproduct all day, with unexpected ...

Propolis, sometimes called bee glue, is an important material for honeybee hives. It’s a complex mixture of plant sap, beeswax, and honeybees’ natural enzymes — and it plays an important role in ...