• Maple Toffee, Finally

    September 24, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F

    In 1995 I came to Canada to teach a workshop on cooperative learning. Later that week Kathy Dickson and I attended a festival honoring the fur trappers. At that festival, I had maple toffee and for the past 30 years I’ve tried to describe to Chuck how wonderful it was. At the festival they poured pure maple syrup on a snow-covered board and then inserted a popsicle stick and rolled the maple syrup up. Today they had chilled our maple syrup and we twisted that chilled syrup into maple toffee. I’m so grateful that after 30 years Chuck got to taste what I’ve been raving about for so long.Read more