It’s a cloudy, gray Saturday morning in November and the Schexnayders are gathered in a shed on their farm in White Castle, watching sugar cane juice bubble away in a large, cast iron cauldron. The ...

To help him turn the raw cane into sweet syrup, Smith assembles a team of five to seven people, all of them with syrup-making in their blood. One of Smith's right-hand men is 87-year-old W.R. Rhodes, ...

A mechanic by trade, Charles Poirier began making cane syrup for friends and family 14 years ago using his great-great-grandfather's method at his farm in Youngsville, Louisiana. Now, he sells his ...