Mead- another food accident

Mead- the fermented honey, was probabaly the frirst fermented drink, perhaps also one among the very famous food accidents that helped in developing the pallette of a human being. maybe honey was left out, rain fell, yeast settled on the mixture. In both Greece & Rome, before wine making mead was offered to the Gods. Honey was a misterious substanceto ancient people. Greeks knew they were made by the bees, but coud not actually connect it how it was being made. Romans thought honey fell from heaven and landed on leaves, hence honey also was called as "the saliva of the stars". This could be probabaly the reeason why Mead was usually used as an offering drink to the Gods as well as the demi gods. Even in Shakespeare's play "The twelfth Night" there is the mention of this magical drink.