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If 10,000 NY Biters pour locally produced maple syrup on their pancakes once a week for a year, we'll keep the weight of over 66 mil jumbo pancake stacks of CO2 out of the environment.

Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was the first music video made using live concert footage.

Pour Some Maple on Me

The Bite

Like it hot (hot, so hot) and sticky sweet for breakfast? If so, pile into a Zipcar and head upstate for Maple Weekend. For two days, 110 New York State maple producers will open their sugar houses to give you an inside look at syrup-making and - best of all - a taste of the goods. Watch how it's done, from tree-tapping to the creation of syrup, maple cream, sugar, and candy. We'll be hitting at least one (but probably several) of the pancake-breakfast shindigs planned for the event. Buying local saves CO2 caused by long-distance shipping, and many of these farmers are all organic all the time. You can even take some home with ya...ooh, in the name of love.

Wanna Try

Maple Weekend 2008; Mar. 29-30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; find participating farms here. (585-591-1190). Grade A Medium Amber Syrup, $38 for 1/2 gal.

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The Maple Syrup Tip

Mar 28,2008

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