3/28/13: Sugar maker and chef Joey Russo is a busy man. From Memorial Day to Valentine’s Day he runs Joey’s Junction Bakery & Cafe in Highgate Center. His partner El Towle fills the space with eclectic art and Joey provides the maple syrup-fueled food. During sugaring season you can find Joey in Belvidere boiling sap from 50,000 trees to make sweet syrup for his business, The Green Mountain Maple Sugar Refining Company.

Music: “Also Sprach Zarathustra” composed by Richard Strauss, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, both performed by Kevin MacLeod

 

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This article appears in The Money Issue April 2013.

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