Sweet beginnings -- Honey cartographers -- Brief history of bees, hives and civilization -- Yemen -- Hives, Kalashnikovs and the Koran -- Australia -- Big red country, big red tape -- New Zealand -- Manuka mania -- Borneo -- Of hives and souls -- Russia -- Honey tricycle -- United kingdom -- Honey kings and queens -- Italy -- Tasting the honeyed divine -- Turkey -- Sweet road to accession -- United States -- Honey, where you been so long? -- China -- Honey dominators -- 21st-century honey myth.