What are all these waffle holes for? And perhaps most perplexing, what's up with the teeny-tiny handle on the side of a maple syrup bottle? It's called a skeumorph, and here's why it's there.

But what if there was a simple way to take maple syrup up a notch and add some seriously sweet and sophisticated flavor? The good news is that simply adding a vanilla bean to your bottle can do just ...

Lloyd Munsee, pictured at left, and David Munsee of Big Tree Maple in Lakewood. They are standing in front of their evaporator machine. The stainless steel barrel on the left is where the final maple ...

Maple syrup isn't new to most people. We drizzle it over our pancakes and bake it into granola. There's a bottle in ...