Meanings of Maple

<div>In <i>Meanings of Maple</i> Michael A. Lange provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making known in Vermont as sugaring to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity.<br> <br> Readers will go deep into a Vermont sugar bush and its web of plastic tubes mainline valves and collection tanks. They will visit sugarhouses crammed with gas evaporators and reverse-osmosis machines. And they will witness encounters between sugar makers and the tourists eager to invest Vermont with mythological fantasies of rural simplicity.<br> <br> So much more than a commodity study <i>Meanings of Maple</i> frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.</div>