Courtesy of Short Order, a Miami food blog: Honey mustard dressing and mead (though not necessarily together)

Thanks to a new site I found (and am now following at @Short_Order, here are some tasty links to stories about honey, which includes a honey mustard dressing, and about mead.

Writer in Los Alamos, New Mexico, touts meadmaking

The writer talks about mead as a pleasant alternative to wine, and offers some advice on making it.

Meadfest is under way!

Well, not quite yet, but entry information is available for the 2011 festival in Boulder, Colorado.

LA Times: Mead comes out of the Dark Ages

LA Times has a piece on the Mead (pardon the pun) renaissance.

August 7 is National Mead Day

Some beer bloggers from Florida are quick to point out that Saturday, August 7, is National Mead Day. They include a primer on some mead basics.
Here's the news from the American Homebrewers Association.

Pennsylvania meadmaker wins wine award

A meadmaker in Cambria County won an international award for his Orange Mead.
The piece includes a short video report on the man. Right now, he makes enough only for friends, but hopes to operate commercially soon.

Wild Turkey American Honey Bourbon and B. Nektar Orange Blossom Mead

Found a single-serve bottle of this at the liquor store checkout yesterday, while buying some of this: B. Nektar's Orange Blossom mead. Nice thing about the mead is that it has a little bee indicator strip that shows you whether it is sweet or dry.

Mead gets some props from Phila. Inquirer

Here's a little write-up about Tria, a pair of Philadelphia cafes that serve mead from South Africa's Makana meadery.

Mead winners

Meadfest has posted its 2010 winners:

Massachusetts meadmakers

Here's a feature about a meadery in Massachusetts.