Sometime back, there was an online nutritional statement on why inhabitants are very intellectual with not only high IQ a but also tops in the nation of longevity. The food items they claimed for all these good traits were blueberries and real maple syrup. When my late husband treated us with a vacation to the Eastern board, we landed in Boston, Bill rented a car at the airport, and we had the best vacation ever with travelling through the most colorful trees of maple reds and oranges, historic museums of Early American Life, a world class quilt museum. And for the first time in my life, I earned an addiction to--yep. Maple syrup. I decided the make believe "maple flavored" pancake syrup on pancakes for years would never again take the place of the real deal addiction I acquired as we drove through forests in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, not to mention Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. The best syrup is bottled in glass. This year I ran out of sugar one day and put cream and maple syrup in my morning coffee, which made good coffee far better than empty calorie sugar (negated by most nutritional scientists) and I've used maple syrup as my sweet tooth coolant ever since.
Plus, just a little dab of maple syrup makes me feel good. And since its sweetness and wonderful flavor is a good day starter, it doesn't cost more than buying a 5 pound sack of sugar that is tasteless by comparison. It only takes a teaspoon of real maple syrup to replace a tablespoon of cane sugar. And because it has little known health benefits I may join the club that lives to be a hundred years old. Longevity runs in my grandmother's family. Good night, everyone. Hope you get a good night's sleep and a great weekend.
Not really there yet but getting a wee bit too close to politics for comfort for the Coffee Shop. Good photoshop job somebody did though.
