Contains recipes (including photographs of food preparation and the finished product) that utilize maple syrup, journal entries related to operation of the Cabane à sucre Au Pied de cochon in Quebec (a maple syrup firm), a primer on the harvesting and processing of maple syrup, and two maple syrup-related short stories.

Translated from French. "Editor: Martin Picard ... Translation of the recipes: Andrew Mullins, Craig Schweickert, Rhonda Mullins ; Translation of The last sugaring off: David Homel ; Translation of the remaining texts: Horace McBus."--Colophon. Includes one fold-out leaf (4 pages, 2 of which are unnumbered).

Introduction / Martin Picard -- Sugar and memories / Marc Séguin -- The last sugaring off / Marc Séguin -- Maple syrup / Stéphane Guay & Edith Bonneau -- Dive right in: maple syrup -- Breakfast in bed: morning -- Vive la France!: the classics -- The tradition: pole syrup -- Diary of a sugar shack / Rafaële Germain -- At moments like these...: the desserts -- The girls' supper: the savoury -- The pig and the maple / Tom Tassel -- White bread or brown?: the sandwiches -- The featherbed and the furry: the hunt -- The bar: drink, drink, drink!