Palm syrup Palm syrup Miel de palma (lit. palm honey, also palm syrup) is an edible sweet syrup produced from the sap of a number of palms. It is produced in the Canary Islands and coastal regions of South America. In the Canary Islands, palm syrup ("miel de palma") is produced from the Canary Island Date Palm ("Phoenix canariensis"). In Chile, palm syrup ("miel de palma") is produced from the endangered Chilean Wine Palm ("Jubaea chilensis"). Other species used include the coconut palm, sugar palm, and palmyra palm. Most guarapo and miel de palma production occurs in the municipality of Vallehermoso on
Jan Miel city and country life. These works were repeatedly used as a model by the Bamboccianti in the second half of the century and by the genre painters working in Rome during the early 18th century. Miel made his most original contribution to genre painting through his paintings of carnival scenes. An example is the (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1645). The painting provides a powerful representation of the fury of carnival. As is common in Miel's 'bambocciate' compositions, noble and common people appear in the same scene: the Roman nobility mounted on horseback is dossed out in elegant costumes while the common people