On the trip back from a resort in Ampuowa, not sure that's how it's spelled but oh well, we stopped at a cane/palm sugar making place. The place smelled like, well, sugar. There were big vat type things that boiled cane or palm sap. The process to get the sap included climbing trees hacking off coconuts and putting containers on the end of the vines to catch sap. After the sap is harvested they boil it. When they're done boiling the sap they make sugar. I don't now how they do that. I will do a more in depth study if you want me to.
So this is where sugar growing went! We went to Hawaii this August and saw lots of old sugar cane fields and plants on the islands of Kaua'i and Maui but were told that they no longer grow sugar cane because US labor is so much more expensive. It was at one the time the major crop of those islands. I see that Thailand is a producer now. You would think we would know these things, as much of it as we eat. . . Have you eaten any of it straight from the field? ~Kathy Elder
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