Hello Eric,

This is also information from my Raw Food Guru, Juliano, at the Raw
Foods restaurant: Apparently "grade C' is also cooked, but less so than
the other grades. I could only find a lower grade at the local Whole
Foods, but Juliano was willing to re-sell grade C at cost. (No, I don't
get a cut out of drumming business for him. :-) :-) :-)

Roy


Submitted to veg-raw by: Eric (Ric) Lambart <[log in to unmask]>
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Bodhi,
Accolades...except I'm not clear on what the maple syrup grade C is.  The
only syrup with which I'm familiar is extensively cooked and cooked and
cooked...till it's syrupy thick.  The pure sap from the mother tree is
awfully runny stuff...is that what the grade C is?

Regarding you pitch for honey...Our family finally quit using honey some
years back.  We were raising bees and I accidently backed into a stack of
"supers" (for non bee keepers: the white boxes in which the bees collect
their nectar and pollen)...notwithstanding my daughter's and my
totally-enclosed-in-bee-suits and bonnets configuration, we both got stung
more times than I care to recall, since the tower of power came tumbling
down.  Gadzooks! The bees were like a black roaring cloud of hell itself.
And, as luck would have it, there wasn't a nice river or pond into which we
could dive...and we were on such a steep mountain slope that running
downhill would have been sure suicide...So.

Never forget the event...I took it as some sort of karmic signal to quit
stealing their hard earned sticky food from them.  I've never bothered 'em
since...the sweet little critters...and have been left alone myself.

But, at least it's raw.

Ric