[Sca-cooks] the Melipone bee, vanilla

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Bees are documented in Europe as far back as 6000 B. C.
http://books.google.com/books?id=pZwAVd8df64C&lpg=PA5&dq=skep%206000%20bc&pg
=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false

Crane  mentions a cauldron from about 550 BC which was probably used to 
make  mead.
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=MZN4AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA241&dq=inauthor%3Acrane
%20skep&pg=PA515#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=MZN4AAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA241&dq=inauthor:crane%20skep&pg=PA515#v=onepage&q&f=false) 

The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting
 By  Ethel Eva Crane
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

The  lost cheeses of Medieval France
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-regime-cheese-1-lost-cheeses-of.htm
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In a message dated 3/10/2014 6:57:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
agora158 at gmail.com writes:

The  Vikings made mead of honey and it must be very early in the Middle  
Ages.
Ana