Easy tips to make holiday parties healthier

Give guests a leg up on their New Year's resolutions with these tasty, healthful tweaks to your favorite holiday dishes.

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Edd Buchanan displays a frame from a hive at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., in July 2011, to examine how well his bees are developing a honeycomb, which he eventually will remove, package and sell. At least a pound of worker bees and a queen are needed to make a productive apiary, s…

Gerry Wozniak and Dr. Jerry Coltro Charm a Chicago Urban Bee Hive

Beekeeper hobbyists Gerry Wozniak (left) and Dr. Jerry Coltro are shown on Sept. 11 "charming" a colony of bees to transfer their "sweet operations" to a makeshift hive to be moved to a better location, after the swarm adopted a tree on a busy Chicago street near a school and park.

Benefit of bees: Raise your own pollinators, reap a sweet harvest

The buzz about honeybees in recent years has been about their vanishing act from gardens and farm fields.

Michael S. Thompson and Hives

Michael S. Thompson (standing) is the man behind the many custom constructed bee hives around downtown Chicago, including the prominent pride-and-joy Mayor Daley colonies based atop Chicago City Hall.

City Hives

Bee hives have found a home in the urban landscape of the Windy City, with empty lots and high-rise building rooftops around Chicago hosting hives flowing with honey sold at the Chicago Downtown Farmstand.

Honey Jars

Honey harvested from the urban beehives on the rooftop of Chicago City Hall are sold at the Chicago Downtown Farmstand and prized as gifts to VIPs who visit Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Bee and Flower

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's push for a "green scene" landscape in the downtown, with flowering planters and vast public park spaces, are an added draw for the hobby of urban beekeeping in the Windy City.

The buzz on urban beekeeping: Chicago high-rise buildings are home to active hives flowing with honey

Last month, when Irene and Thomas Renwald of Munster read about a seminar in downtown Chicago on the hobby of "urban beekeeping," their curiosity prompted them to attend.

The buzz on urban beekeeping: Chicago high-rises are home to hives flowing with honey

Last month, when Irene and Thomas Renwald of Munster read about a seminar in downtown Chicago on the hobby of "urban beekeeping," their curiosity prompted them to attend.

OFFBEAT: Bees and honey not just a rural hobby, explained at Chicago buzz event tonight

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Martha Stewart Sketch by Artist Sara Wood

Artist Sara Wood says her 2009 illustration of Martha Stewart in beekeeper garb symbolizes the media mogul as "the queen bee of a massive hive of a corporation."

Greek Greatness

Melomakarona are Greek honey cookies with a delicate flavor and flaky texture. They feature a glaze rinse and chopped nuts to help enhance an already delicious taste.

Students abuzz during visit from honey queen

Indiana Honey Queen Kelsey Salmon explains the duties of each type of bee that is lives in a hive to a group of second-graders at Thomas Jefferson Elementary Friday afternoon.

Students abuzz during visit from honey queen

Indiana Honey Queen Kelsey Salmon goes and puts bee antennas on Thomas Jefferson Elementary second-grader Zach Hospekhein's head Friday afternoon at the Valparaiso school. Salmon was talking about honey bee's to the second-graders and how they provide pollention for many plants which, in tur…