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. 27,473 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can ...

This is a traditional Southern sweetener, made from the juice of sorghum cane that has been boiled until it reaches a syrup consistency. John and Emma Guenther, who live in the small Tennessee ...

“It looks like corn, but it puts grain on top,” said Dennis Buchda of Fall River, who emerged from clouds of smoke to explain the sorghum-to-syrup process. “This is cane sorghum. We squeeze it through ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WCYB) — The 23rd Annual Sorghum Festival is taking place Saturday, September 17, at Tipton-Haynes State Historic Site in Johnson City from9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Festival attendees will ...

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 ...

Sorghum molasses is probably an acquired taste. Kind of like licorice or turnip greens. Once converted, however, molasses consumers are loyal to a fault. A Ron Jenkins article that appeared in The ...

CHICAGO — The potential appeal of sorghum to consumers seeking gluten-free products and the grain’s versatility for bakers and food manufacturers seeking flour alternatives were the subject of a ...

There's nothing quite like tasting Southern syrup to transport you to a slow, warm afternoon, where time seems to drift as ...