The honey dish has long been one of the main gift items for Rosh Hashanah or year-round for Rosh Hashanah.
The dish, on display all over the city, comes in almost every shape and every form, from pure silver to even disposables. Nor is honey just that anymore.
There is flavored honey, gourmet honey, or honey mixes. One can buy honey stix in a variety pack, honey candy, Tea Honey Stix, Lemon Honey and more. And then there are the pastries in every type of baked goods, from pure honey cakes to honey cakes with fruits.
In the US alone, the Rosh Hashanah honey business is estimated at some $20 million. Home baking with honey has become extremely popular particularly in many of the kosher cookbooks. Honey cakes and cupcakes have also become big gift items.
i24NEWS reports that Israel beekeepers make 40% of their yearly revenue during the High Holidays. Reporter Shelby Weiner takes an inside look at Israel’s honey industry, and why it will be particularly sweet this year.
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we can do a video about the Kfar Chabad beekeeper Schneersohn. Nice video but prefer to see Observant Jewish farmers and reporters in Eretz hakodesh. Just saying