[[File:apis-mellifera-bee-beekeeping-56876.jpg|thumb|left|Bees on a honeycomb]]
Insects are rarely the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Polish cookery. This is despite the fact that honey bees have played a crucial role in traditional Polish (an and not only) cuisine for centuries. Even in the oldest known description of Poland at the dawn of its history, written by the Sephardi traveler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, we can read that Poland was a land full of grain, meat and honey.<ref>{{Cyt