Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has hailed a Scottish firm's honey as her favourite brand. The English food writer and cook said tasting the Scottish Bee Company's heather honey was, "like eating the landscape." "I went to Scotland and fell in love with it," said the chef, who has launched a competition with the online supermarket Ocado to find Britain's next "honey hero".
The winner will receive a £2000 investment and the opportunity to have their honey stocked by the store. The Scottish Bee Company was founded in 2017 with the aim of boosting the country’s dwindling bee population and increasing pollination as well as grow employment opportunities for bee farmers and help generate a rise in the export of Scottish products. Within just over six months of the Edinburgh business being launched by husband and wife team, Suzie and Iain Millar, the company has not only created Scotland’s first bee farming apprentice but had secured contracts with The House of Bruar in Perthshire, IJ Mellis across Scotland, and into Cumbria, England.
Company director, Iain, said that heather honey also has been proven to have the same superpowers as the highly-regarded and desirable New Zealand Manuka honey. READ MORE: 'Predatory' Asian Hornet poses threat to Scottish honeybee population David Beckham is a fan - now meet the Scots who are buzzing for bees Interviewed by The Times, Nigella said she enjoyed trying out local varieties of honey while on holiday and was fascinated by a Celtic tradit.
