Now, maple’s lesser-known forest cousin birch is having its day. Nature’s unrequited gifts of indigenous syrups broaden our definition of how to eat locally and deliciously all year long.

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Another consideration is flavor. "Though you can barely tell butternut syrup apart from maple syrup," says Thayer, "my birch syrups taste like you mixed molasses with concentrated apple juice." ...

in 2015 with maple sap soda and seltzer made in Vermont. Now the partners hope to pioneer an new category of beverages based on birch, rather than maple sap. Smith says Sap! is breaking new ground ...

LEE, N.H. — Unlike maple syrup-drenched Vermont and lobster-rich Maine, New Hampshire doesn't have much to call its own in the food world. But it could find a future claim to fame in birch syrup ...

Across Eastern Canada, it’s sugaring season – the sap of sugar maples (as well as a few other maple species) has been flowing since February, while the birch trees up north have only just ...