Birch For Breakfast? Meet Maple Syrup's Long-Lost Cousins

... Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook , makes black walnut syrup in the Hudson Valley region of New York with her husband. "It's slightly astringent and bitter, so it's not a mainstream flavor," she says. By comparison, maple ...

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