You are invited to slow down, savour, and indulge in Sweet, Like Honey - a curated series of five lunchtime presentations exploring the cultural, historical, and sensory worlds of sweetness.
This midday escape blends short, engaging talks with thoughtfully designed sweet and savoury food and beverage pairings that bring each theme vividly to life. Across the series, sweetness is examined as both material and metaphor: from Greek mythology’s sacred associations between bees and divinity, to medieval European honey cakes that reveal evolving human relationships with honey and craft.
Trace sweetness through moments of absence and ingenuity, such as early substitutes and improvisations when honey and sugar were scarce, and into contemporary expressions where ingredients like beetroot and fermentation reinterpret what “sweet” can mean.
From blossoms to beehives, you will sample NZ mono-floral honeys, experiencing terroir through taste. Alongside celebration, the series also considers urgency: the ecological pressures facing bee populations and the implications for future food systems.
Sweet, Like Honey is both an indulgence and an inquiry - a sensory journey into sweetness, sustainability, and the stories we taste.
Event details:
- Location: School of Hospitality & Tourism, WH Building, Room WH306,
- Price: $25pp per session
Schedule:
- Monday | 10 August | 12 – 1PM: Sweet, Like Honey: Food of the Gods
- Tuesday | 11 August | 12 – 1PM: Sweet, Like Honey: Let them eat Cake
- Wednesday | 12 August | 12 – 1PM: – Sweet, Like Honey: Putting down Roots
- Thursday | 13 August | 12 – 1PM: Sweet, Like Honey: Nectar & Nature
- Friday | 14 August | 12 – 1PM: Sweet, Like Honey: Save the Bees
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