Honey

Honey was a sweet, viscous food substance produced by honey bees and their larger cousin the giant honey bee.

Availability
Honey was typically sold by alchemists, beekeepers, farms, and food markets.

Places in the Realms where honey bees were known to be cultivated for their honey included:
 * In the divine realm of Arvandor, elves were known to cultivate honey for the purposes of mead.
 * The island kingdom of Afyal was known to cultivate and export honey.
 * The plane of Bytopia, especially in the layer of Dothion.
 * The Dalelands.
 * The town of Eveningstar in Cormyr.
 * The city of Mezro in Chult.
 * The gardens of the city-state of Neverwinter.

Usage

 * Honey was largely used throughout the Realms as a form of sweetener. Whenever it was applied to something, the food or beverage was referred to as being "honeyed."
 * It was a main sweetener component of many alcoholic beverages including clarry, evermead, mead, and tej.
 * It was one of the main ingredients to honeydrops.
 * In the Dalelands, elven farmers south of Spiderhaunt Wood were known to offer pots of honey to the Seldarine before planting their crops for the spring, hoping that they would control the land's chaotic weather.
 * Honey tended by druids could act as a metamagic component for the spells suggestion and mass suggestion.
 * Honey was a material components of the spells shout, antipathy/sympathy, detect shapechanger, face, and detect lycanthrope. Honey specially fermented for royal bees was a material component of the spell heroes' feast.
 * Some were known to give camels and a camel of the Pearl a dab of honey to persuade them away from wandering.
 * When mixed with a ground up amber, honey could remove some degree of blindness. When mixed with that and rose oil, honey could remove some degree of deafness.

Individuals

 * Honey was one of the favored foods of the dragon god of justice Bahamut.

Animals & Races

 * Among fey, honey was especially loved by atomies and grigs.
 * Badgers were often attracted to honey.
 * The Batiri of Chult were known to tie their enemies to trees, douse them in honey, and then leave them to be eaten away by jungle insects.
 * Bears, owlbears, and werebears were also known to be fond of honey. The latter were especially enamored with mead containing heavy amounts of the substance.
 * Biclopses were known to forage for honey at twilight hours.
 * The small insects known as flies were often attracted to honey, so much so that there existed the proverb, "you catch more flies with honey."
 * Honey was a typical part of the diet of faerie dragons.
 * In the land of Chult, monkey spiders were very fond of honey.

Regions

 * In the land of Zakhara, honey was a very popular product among tribesmen and in the markets of Tajar.
 * The Zakharan city of Umara was known to import honey.

Rumors & Legends

 * One legend in the Feywild claimed that pixies stole the secret of making honey from a goblet of mead belonging to the Summer Queen and then sold it to honeybees.
 * The fabled Zakharan city of Iram was said to have rivers of milk and honey.