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Pancakes' New Topper

Move over, maple, there’s a new sweet syrup in town: sorghum. Once enjoyed mainly in the South, it’s now becoming a new favorite everywhere. Stacey Slate reports on five little-known facts about sorghum.

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There’s more to the syrup world than maple and molasses. Sweet sorghum syrup has many of the appealing qualities of these two popular syrups—it is thick, sweet, and sugary—but traditionally it has been used mainly in the South and Appalachia.

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