"I had no idea how keepers could tell one honey from another. . . Are different honeys found in different parts of the hive, or on separate parts of the comb? The answer was simpler that anything I had thought of. Beekeepers follow the flower, moving hives to places where the tree or shrub that interest them is in the height of bloom."
Corby Kummer, The Atlantic Monthly Magazine

THE KATZ STORY
Our culinary lineage spans the last 30 years. It began when we opened a restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area, at a time when cooking local, seasonal, farm-fresh foods was in its infancy. This was a vibrant and creative period and we spent that first decade "behind the kitchen line" learning that the quality of the ingredients makes all the difference.

Later down the road as we created those ingredients, our mission became simple: to produce genuine and authentic foods with integrity and in a traditional manner that nurtures the soul and satisfies the palate.

HONEY IS NOT JUST HONEY
"First-rate honey is like a great vintage wine or estate bottled olive oil: a mosaic of compelling, hard-to-classify flavors."

Bees produce honey from the nectar of blooming plants, but the nectar produced by one flower will be different than that of another flower. We seek out distinctive flora that produce honeys with the qualities in aroma, taste, texture and color reflective of their particular species of flower. All of our honeys are bottled unpasturized, thus maintaining the multitude of health benefits associated with honey that often are lost in traditional commercial honey from over-heating which is done to eliminate crystallization.

ABOUT THE PRODUCT
Each year we gather a number of lots of honey for our Branches Range Wildflower blend. The bees have been strategically placed in distinct areas of the lower California Sierra foothills to take full advantage of the great diversity of flora in bloom during the late spring.

From this yearly gathering we select small amounts to bottle for our chef and food service customers who are often looking to find an elixir with distinctive and bold flavors that can stand on its own when paired with particular foods. This year’s bottling comes from the El Dorado Hills near Shingle Springs located at about 1000’ elevation. The color is light amber and the flavors are of sweet spices and fresh cut hay. It has a great mouth feel and calls out to be bottled on its own…to be used when the flavors can be highlighted…on cheeses, in elegant dressings, drizzled over warm fruit desserts and crisps, or ice cream and the like.

We are proud to release the 2006 bottling of our food service size 2.75 lbs/44 oz. container of Katz All Flower Honey available exclusively for your restaurant or store kitchens. Americans are fast becoming aware of the myriad of health benefits and culinary uses for this unrefined sweet. We encourage you to take this opportunity to use a distinctive elixir to expand your horizons and menus with the addition of this limited and unique blend. Enjoy!

Our honey is Kosher certified.