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 was documented in the studio of Andrea Sacchi. This collaboration is rather exceptional since Sacchi was an important critic of the Bambocciante style of which Miel was an important representative. This stay in Sacchi's studio may have been instrumental in the artist's evolutions towards the "gran maniera" of painting. Miel worked with Andrea Sacchi on the painting (Galleria Barberini, Rome, 1641). It is believed that Sacchi only executed a small portion of the painting himself and that Jan Miel executed the foreground figures after drawings by Sacchi. Old auction catalogues mentioned that Miel contributed the staffage to the landscapes of