Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees, primarily sugar maples, by boiling the sap to concentrate the sugar. According to the “Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America,” Native ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic tubing ...

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Are we at 100 inches of snowfall yet? When we were past 75 inches, I happened to visit Danny and Thuan at Fitchburg’s legendary Millbury Fish Market. Our younger child “was out of seaweed snacks ...

(Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.) Celebrate the holidays with these recipes courtesy of New York Times Cooking, specially chosen for ...