The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

The Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill in Monterey, Tenn., is still using a wood-fired locomotive boiler to cook its sorghum juice into biscuit-ready syrup. Filming nude scenes helped Sarah Shahi embrace her ...

Laborious to make, sorghum lost its allure when sweeteners like honey and sugar were easy to buy at the store. But in Southern Indiana, with its rich country style food traditions (think pork ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...