Only real maple syrup that is made from maple tree sap and contains no artificial flavorings or additives is worthy of touching your recipes, and Fairway’s Organic Maple Syrup Extra Dark for Cooking is harvested from small family farms that utilize sustainable practices to ensure the tapped trees are never damaged or weakened. The production process is managed by a family that has been “sugaring” (producing maple syrup) for seven generations. The trees are tapped in the late winter and early spring when freezing nights and sunny days help the sap flow freely. It takes 40 gallons of sap to create one gallon of maple syrup! Our pristine maple syrup has a clean and pronounced maple flavor with no aftertaste.

Bake with pears for an oustanding dessert. Or cut an acorn squash in half, and drizzle maple syrup all over it and in its cored center, and bake it until it gets soft and caramelized for a fantastic side with an extra dimension of flavor. You can use instead of honey and sugar in recipes. (For the latter, reduce the main liquid in the recipe by 1/4 cup when replacing 1 cup sugar for 1 cup maple syrup.)

Fairway Marketplace is brought to you by Fairway Market, a specialty food chain that started back in 1933 with a small fruit and vegetable stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Today, Fairway Market is legendary for its experts and expertise in all things food, and a relentless obsession with quality throughout all of the different departments in its stores. In December of 2011, Fairway launched this online shop, so that we could bring the best of the best of what Fairway offers, at the same great values, to those who don’t live near one of our stores. Why keep all of this foodie goodness to ourselves? That simply would not be fair.