IT is in the heat of the summer, in mid July, when she finally makes an appearance. That is the Virgen del Carmen, the patron ...

Some things can’t be believed until experienced. Since I grew up in Mississippi and have spent the past 18 years in Louisiana, I thought I was prepared for the heat of the equator in July. I was wrong ...

TROY, Ala. — Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Joe Todd of Todd Farms in Dothan said "Amen" to that. The seventh-generation syrup-maker ...

HEADLAND – There’s a lot of history at Todd Syrup Farm. Old plows, original peanut shelling devices, and more than 50 cane mills are on display in the farm’s living museum – located next door to a ...

Ben LeBlanc, the manager of Lafourche Sugar, is the representation of a new breed of sugar millers. He said he was attracted to the sugar-cane industry, not because it was in his blood (his father was ...

DADE CITY — Whether sopping a warm biscuit through a puddle of sugar cane syrup or a bowl of piping hot chili, taste buds will be in for a treat when sugar meets spice at the Raising Cane Chilli Cook ...