Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781682260357)

In Meanings of Maple, 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.

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.

So much more than a commodity study, Meanings of Maple frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways, and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.

Author: Michael Lange
ISBN-10: 1682260356
ISBN-13: 9781682260357
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018