Maple syrup bottles sit in the background as a spoon drips syrup onto a stack of pancakes in the foreground - Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Maple syrup season begins in late February and runs through April, ...

Maple syrup season begins in late February and runs through April, and no — we're not talking about pancake syrup made with high fructose corn syrup; we mean the real stuff, made from boiled tree sap, ...