Maple Syrup
| 7:00AM 4/10/2009
My family eats a huge amount of maple syrup, and lately, I've had to carefully budget our purchases. I have a whopping $50 per month set aside for sweeteners, and between the disappearance of bees and the rising prices of maple syrup, it doesn't go as far as you'd think.Lately, maple syrup prices...
| 5:00PM 4/06/2009
The high price of maple syrup is leading to some sticky crimes in Quebec, Canada, where someone recently broke into a sugar shack and stole eight barrels of maple syrup worth $16,000 to $18,000.The 15,000 liters is so valuable because the cost of a can of maple syrup has gone up to $10 from $6 last...
| 5:30PM 1/20/2009
The United States food supply is more reliable than those found in many other countries, but there are still some common scams to look out for: Consumer Reports found that most "wild salmon" advertised in grocery stores is actually of the less desirable farm-raised variety. A lot of olive oil is...
| 8:00AM 1/15/2009
I was shocked this summer when I saw the price of maple syrup virtually double in a few weeks' time. My family sweetens a lot of our food with maple syrup as we are working to reduce overly processed foods in our diet. At the time, I didn't know exactly why, but I've just been schooled in the world...