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Article: Tap into the sap Maple syrup sets tone for holiday feast
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- Oakland Tribune
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- November 15, 2006
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LOOKING FOR A WAY to sweeten the pot this year? Maple syrup
infuses both turkey and trimmings with a soulful sensibility. Even
mashed potatoes, we found, can benefit from a rich gravy spiked with
the dark drippings of a maple-glazed bird.
And, while maple is surely hip (witness Starbucks' latest
macchiato), it's also a time-honored kitchen tradition worthy of the
Thanksgiving table.
It was American Indians, after all, who first discovered that the
sweet sap of the maple tree made a superb flavoring. They taught the
earliest Colonial settlers to harvest and process maple syrup,
making it the primary sweetener in the 17th and 18th centuries.
So it's only fitting that we salute the original ...