03527cam a2200385 4500 235447005 TxAuBib 20140807120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780306822056 0306822059 2705af91-af5e-4791-bbae-a3febebc99a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1419125 OverDrive (Product ID) 1419125 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Whynott, Douglas. The Sugar Season [Libby] : A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family's Quest for the Sweetest Harvest. Da Capo Press, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 2353kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2283kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Cooking & Food. History. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>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...<br /> 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?<br /> At a sugarhouse owned by maple syrup entrepreneur Bruce Bascom, 80,000 gallons of sap are processed daily during winter's end. In <i>The Sugar Season</i>, 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).<br /> 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.<br /> 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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=2705af91-af5e-4791-bbae-a3febebc99a1 https://samples.overdrive.com/sugar-season?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/sugar-season?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/sugar-season?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/sugar-season?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT