Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic and people who have helped

and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish

and her work has appeared in the

James Beard Award-winning chef of celebrated Atlanta restaurant Miller Union

sustains workers of all classes

cornmeal-crusted catfish

Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic and people who have helpedEvery Spring, Lavington Farms grows sugar cane at their family farm in the ACE Basin of South Carolina, and by November its ready to be harvested by hand and crafted into the South's finest cane syrup. The canes are stripped and the tops are cut by machete wielding men for days to harvest the sugar cane. Then the meticulous and laborious cooking process beginsan antique syrup kettle full of cane juice is cooked over an open fire, and carefully