http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:58:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/comment-page-1/#comment-1376 cory Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:16:55 +0000 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/#comment-1376 just to follow up: if you think you smelled maple syrup in october -- and when i say maple syrup i mean pure 100 per cent vermont maple syrup -- saturday was the sugar on snow festival in brattleboro vermont. sugar on snow, you ask. an old vermont tradition to kick off the maple syruping season here ... tens of thousands of maple trees ... hundreds of thousands of gallons of sap ... boiled and boiled and boiled some more, using carefully guarded sugar extracting processes that are generations old, or, in some cases, new vaporization methods ... to a ratio of roughly 40 gallons of sap to one gallon of something we've grown to love, grade a fancy. i expect the stoves to start later this week and go well into the month of march ... get it while it's hot. just to follow up: if you think you smelled maple syrup in october — and when i say maple syrup i mean pure 100 per cent vermont maple syrup — saturday was the sugar on snow festival in brattleboro vermont.
sugar on snow, you ask.
an old vermont tradition to kick off the maple syruping season here … tens of thousands of maple trees … hundreds of thousands of gallons of sap … boiled and boiled and boiled some more, using carefully guarded sugar extracting processes that are generations old, or, in some cases, new vaporization methods … to a ratio of roughly 40 gallons of sap to one gallon of something we’ve grown to love, grade a fancy.
i expect the stoves to start later this week and go well into the month of march …
get it while it’s hot.

]]> http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/comment-page-1/#comment-1375 ~dana Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:20:38 +0000 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/#comment-1375 I also did not smell it and was out and about in the burg that night. I was too busy concentrating on how freaking cold it was. But the news coverage of the syrup smell has been so damn funny... I also did not smell it and was out and about in the burg that night. I was too busy concentrating on how freaking cold it was. But the news coverage of the syrup smell has been so damn funny…

]]> http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/comment-page-1/#comment-1374 Anna Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:21:01 +0000 http://nyc.metblogs.com/2005/10/28/sweet-the-smell/#comment-1374 absolutely smelled it, too. WTF? absolutely smelled it, too. WTF?

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