Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images Maple syrup is an especially welcome pantry staple during the cold weather season, when pancakes ...

MAPLE SYRUP is very much a year-round essential in my kitchen. But there’s always a poetry in the thought that the sap boiled down to produce the syrup we love so much is tapped from maple trees in ...

Lisa Gauker held up a bottle of store-bought pancake syrup. “Is this really maple syrup?” the recreation and special events supervisor for the Berks County Department of Parks and Recreation asked.

From late November to early March, Ella Smoot can usually be found in one of two places: the forest or the sugar shack. Like all maple syrup producers, her winter is a rush of running sap—cold ...