Four Seasons Hotel Prague - Honey Making (Czech Republic)
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Four Seasons Hotel Prague - Honey Making (Czech Republic)
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Category: Europe - Czech Republic - Gourmet restaurants -
Gourmet restaurants
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2009-03-30
A Hive of Activity
There's a lot of buzz in the kitchen at Four Seasons Hotel Prague these days. In addition to the 27 talented cooks at Allegro, the Hotel's Michelin-star Italian restaurant, there's a rumour that 9.6 million specialty "chefs" have been recruited to make the food even sweeter. But these chefs don't chop, sauté or bake.
In fact, they're busy bees — literally! — who are property of Allegro's longtime saucier, Vladimir Milfait. During prime honey-producing months, he maintains 60 hives, each of them occupying up to 160,000 bees. That's what it takes to make the 500 kg that'll keep the restaurant dripping in honey for about a year.
Why so much liquid gold? Well, from pastries to meat marinades and sauces, honey is a key ingredient on the menu. What makes this stuff so special is variety: Vladimir's workforce creates oak-, pine- and linden-tree honey, all of which differ in scent, colour and consistency. This allows the restaurant's other chefs — vastly outnumbered by their bee counterparts — to select the right flavour for the right dish.
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