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The Sugar Season : A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest Hardback
by DOUGLAS WHYNOTT
Hardback
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A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art- the sweetest harvest, maple syrup...How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "sugar parties" and the delicacy "sugar on snow" to a modern industry?At a sugarhouse owned by maple syrup entrepreneur Bruce Bascom, 80,000 gallons of sap are processed daily during winter's end.
In The Sugar Season , Douglas Whynott follows Bascom through one tumultuous season, taking us deep into the sugarbush, where sunlight and sap are intimately related and the sound of the taps gives the woods a rhythm and a ring.
Along the way, he reveals the inner workings of the multimillion-dollar maple sugar industry.
Make no mistake, it's big business- complete with a Maple Hall of Fame, a black market, a major syrup heist monitored by Homeland Security, a Canadian organization called The Federation, and a Global Strategic Reserve that's comparable to OPEC (fitting, since a barrel of maple syrup is worth more than a barrel of oil).Whynott brings us to sugarhouses, were we learn the myriad subtle flavors of syrup and how it's assigned a grade.
He examines the unusual biology of the maple tree that makes syrup possible and explores the maples'- and the industry's- chances for survival, highlighting a hot-button issue: how global warming is threatening our food supply.
Experts predict that, by the end of this century, maple syrup production in the United States may suffer a drastic decline.As buckets and wooden spouts give way to vacuum pumps and tubing, we see that even the best technology can't overcome warm nights in the middle of a season- and that only determined men like Bascom can continue to make a sweet like off of rugged land.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 8 pages of photos
- Publisher:The Perseus Books Group
- Publication Date:20/03/2014
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- ISBN:9780306822049
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 8 pages of photos
- Publisher:The Perseus Books Group
- Publication Date:20/03/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780306822049