Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic cornmeal-crusted catfish

cornmeal-crusted catfish

Joshua David Stein

sustains workers of all classes

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

including St

Lavington Farms Pure Cane Syrup Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic cornmeal-crusted catfishEvery 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