The Russian answer to maple syrup.

I don’t know about the juice but birch syrup, which must be the same thing, is/was sold by Gourmet Garage. For the record it’s like maple syrup but with unfamiliar overtones. Good luck.

I’m Russian and I have looked everywhere for this juice, but none of the places have it (online, offline, specialty, etc). Some Russian grocery stores have a cheaper, diluted version that tastes quite differently from non...

Go beyond white sugar.

High-impact tableware on a low-impact budget.

to stop in shortly...if for nothing else than the birch juice which I have read about but never tried....not sure if it is anything like the spruce beer of my childhood in Quebec

in Little River with the open-countered Royal Castle next door. Three burgers for 30 cents and a ice-cold birch beer for a nickle made a great lunch. I’ll have to make a special effort to hunt up one of these remaining...

of the main ingredients of old fashioned root beer. I sometimes make my own root beer from sassafras roots, wild sarsaparilla root (aralia nudicaulis) and black birch (betula lenta) twigs (black birch twigs have more wintergreen...

Our best food find of the weekend was breakfast at our B & B. We stayed at The Seasons and breakfast, which was served in the lush garden under a beautiful birch tree that had just changed to gold, consisted of a flavorful...

I’d go with a good Birch Beer, Root Beer, or Cream Soda for carbonation and the Mango Juice sounds great also. A nice cole slaw goes great with Chili, easy to make ahead and refreshing, I often make an ambrosia to go with...

I visited Havana Mania in Brea. It is located in the mini-mall on Birch west of State College, across the street from the Brea Mall. It’s kind of hidden. It was Friday around 7 pm. The place was packed. They had live music....

We just concluded a 4 day trip to Monterey and I followed some advice listed here. First off I want to mention a great local Root Beer made in Pacific Grove, Sparky’s. Lots of birch, cane sugar, and good aftertaste. We...

creams (with the exception of the Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream) entirely with birch sugar, a diabetic safe crystalline sweetner with a more subtle flavor and no chemical aftertaste. I was very surprised to see that you can make...

was the Rhubarb consomme dessert. We ordered it only to find that it was merely over-ripe, watery strawberries in juice, with three tiny pieces of meringue. No rhubarb in site, but the waitress told us it was pureed into the...

Bawls (just kidding). Try some of the drinks at Chinese/Korean/Japanese supermarkets. Asparagus juice (smells like asparagus pee, tastes... like asparagus pee with sugar), green pumpkin juice, etc. are things I don’t think I...