Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic and the lineage of baking

and the lineage of baking bread in clay ovens stretches across the region with strikingly parallel methods

cornmeal-crusted catfish

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

Kelsey Barnard Clark is a Southern chef

Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic and the lineage of bakingEvery 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