Baby Blues – a drink with interesting rim, but all around mediocre. Vanilla Pear Fizz – surprisingly good, but missing some essential ingredient.

We all love the pure stuff, of course, but maple syrup infused with heat can add fun and flavor to foods as varied as cocktails, cookies and chicken and waffles. I have a soft spot for warm maple ...

She and her husband Jeff are a team. They have been hard at work collecting and boiling down sap into maple syrup in their Mason, N.H., backyard sugar house they call Babel’s Sugar Shack.

I really love the dressing for this salad. You have a hint of sweetness from the maple syrup balanced out by the acidity from ...