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 ...

With food trucks and music; sample tastings of new No’Lasses and Apple Brandy spirits, plus a cash bar for cocktails (proceeds benefit Abundance North Carolina). Chris Jude had never heard of sorghum ...

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 ...

The molasseslike sweetener that has long had a following in kitchens in the South and Midwest also has found its way onto fine restaurant menus.... Growing up in a household with predominantly New ...