The Sugar Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sugar Season write by Douglas Whynott. This book was released on 2014-03-04. The Sugar Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A year in the life of one New England family as they work to preserve an ancient, lucrative, and threatened agricultural art--the sweetest harvest, maple syrup . . . How has one of America's oldest agricultural crafts evolved from a quaint enterprise with "sugar parties" and the delicacy "sugar on snow" to a modern industry? At a sugarhouse owned by maple syrup entrepreneur Bruce Bascom, 80,000 gallons of sap are processed daily during winter's end. In The Sugar Season, Douglas Whynott follows Bascom through one tumultuous season, taking us deep into the sugarbush, where sunlight and sap are intimately related and the sound of the taps gives the woods a rhythm and a ring. Along the way, he reveals the inner workings of the multimillion-dollar maple sugar industry. Make no mistake, it's big business -- complete with a Maple Hall of Fame, a black market, a major syrup heist monitored by Homeland Security, a Canadian organization called The Federation, and a Global Strategic Reserve that's comparable to OPEC (fitting, since a barrel of maple syrup is worth more than a barrel of oil). Whynott brings us to sugarhouses, were we learn the myriad subtle flavors of syrup and how it's assigned a grade. He examines the unusual biology of the maple tree that makes syrup possible and explores the maples' -- and the industry's -- chances for survival, highlighting a hot-button issue: how global warming is threatening our food supply. Experts predict that, by the end of this century, maple syrup production in the United States may suffer a drastic decline. As buckets and wooden spouts give way to vacuum pumps and tubing, we see that even the best technology can't overcome warm nights in the middle of a season--and that only determined men like Bascom can continue to make a sweet like off of rugged land./DIV
Uncle Ira's Sugar Season
Uncle Ira's Sugar Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncle Ira's Sugar Season write by Edwin Burrage Child. This book was released on 1906. Uncle Ira's Sugar Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Maple Spring
A Maple Spring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Maple Spring write by Scott W. Rozanski. This book was released on 2017-07-10. A Maple Spring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a long cold winter, which is common across northern Michigan, spring is a welcome time of year. Spring is a transition period, from months of snowblowing the driveway and blinding lake effect snow off Lake Michigan, to warmer days and melting snow. It is a time to get outdoors, smell the fresh cool snow melt air and soak up the sun. Most importantly, it is a time to begin making maple syrup. We have been making our own maple syrup in the forests of northern Michigan since 2001. During our first maple syrup season, our children were young, Tyler was 7 and Abbey was 5. My wife and I home schooled our children and making syrup was part of their education. Our children are much older now. Their lives have become busier as you would expect, but we still enjoy making maple syrup. I hope you enjoy spending some time with us during our Maple Spring, Sugar Season In Northern Michigan.
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia write by Ulbe Bosma. This book was released on 2013-10-07. The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time.
The Sugar Masters
The Sugar Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sugar Masters write by Richard Follett. This book was released on 2007-02-01. The Sugar Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.
