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:
 * 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 gardens of the city-state of Neverwinter.

Usage

 * Honey was largely used throughout the Realms as a form of sweetener.
 * It was a main sweetener component of many wines including clarry, evermead, and mead.
 * 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, and face. Honey specially fermented for royal bees was a material component of the spell heroes' feast.
 * Some were known to give camels a dab of honey to persuade them away from wandering.

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.
 * Both bears and badgers were often attracted to honey.
 * 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.
 * Mead containing heavy amounts of honey was a favorite beverage among Werebears.

Regions

 * In the land of Zakhara, honey was a very popular product among tribesmen and in the markets of Tajar.

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.