“I’ve always thought of thick, golden, pure maple syrup as one of the truly natural foods, even though I never tasted the real thing until I tried my hand at syrup production in the spring of 1971.
At that time my wife and I were living, courtesy of the U.S. Army, in northern Ohio. Near our apartment was some wooded land surrounded by large signs reading “No Trespassing, U.S. Government Property”.
With encouragement from my partner (she promised to write me every day if I was caught) I searched this “government property” — read “public,” that is, yours and mine — and found several large sugar and silver maple trees.
Once my source of sap was assured, I was ready to launch “Project Sweet Tooth”…
