Meet the Mennonites Behind One of the World's Best Syrups{



From our friends at Southern Foodways Alliance, this piece produced by 1504 focuses on the Muddy Pond Sorghum Mill, a family-owned sorghum syrup producer in Tennessee. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/hGwtF0 Check out EATER RULES — Our new series for rules, tips, & tricks behind some of the most sought .

Meet the Mennonites Behind One of the World's Best Syrups

- Just a simple man doing what he loves. Good on him
- I've never had it plain. Looked at the ingredients list on a cereal box from the brand "KIND" and saw that it had sorghum in it! Reminded me of this video!
zobacz więcej: oświetlenie natynkowe białe , można też gdzie indziej szukać. - Made cane syrup but never sorghum syrup
- This mans product IS THE BEST! I also want to mention that I envy his life and love his quote at the end. "This is my calling, this is my life".
- Muddy Pond makes the best sorghum syrup I've ever had, I have to order it through Amazon because it's not sold here in Galveston county Texas, which I gladly do very often.
- I have loved sorghum since I was a kid, I've put in hot coffee, on toast with real butter. It's so good, rich and dark. Please keep harvesting it and making it.
- The only way to live passionately is to love what your doing no matter what anyone else thinks and do because it resonates deep within your soul. Nice Amazon sells it .
- He is fulfilling the calling of community, even the greater community by understanding the call within himself.
- Sorghum is the main ingredient of most Chinese Baijiu, it is rich in tannins (which is also presented in grape skin and seed). The reason why ancient Chinese distillers chose sorghum is from an idiom among them: "Sorghum produces fragrance, corn produces sweetness, rice produces pureness, wheat produces heat, glutinous rice produces clearness, barley produces heat"; from which we can see that sorghum retain much of its flavor after distillation, and interacts positively (from human tasting perspective) with fermentation with complex microbites (the fermentation catalyst of Baijiu is Qu, which is not purified solely for alcoholic producing yeast).
Sorghum is also a C4 crop, as the corn is. C4 crops utilize sunlight better than C3 crops (which both rice and wheat are), and more resilient and higher in production than C3 crops (like rice, wheat, oats, barley, rye, etc...) in natural conditions. It is a marvelous crop. Glutinous sorghum produce some of the best desserts and glutinous cakes.
- You found your Niche you found where you belong this is where you belong and I do like sargam 2
- There are no words, I get it, bless you and your family.
- Nothing wrong with a little modernization, as long as you stay true to your roots
- I had sorghum once when I was 14yrs old ,my mom and dad and I was on the way to Florida to visit my grandparents, and well we stopped at a restaurant for something to eat that night and I had pancakes and sausage with sorghum it was soooo good , the next day we had breakfast at the same place and this time I had grits with sorghum and homemade bread that was toasted and bacon it was so delicious .
- "The world is a mean place." How right he is, many Mennonites are simply better off staying on the farm. Its not just for their benefit but for everyone else's as well.
- Eeh there's bad sex..
- Beats working in an office.
- Well done! What a great mini-documentary that celebrates a pure human. I think the world would be a better place with more like this man :)
- "Its in my blood, it is in my blood, yes". Considering the amounts he eats I would say its about a 50/50 mixture. But what a lovely man. He seems like an extremely pleasant person to be around.
- I like that video and I like Muddy Pond Sorghum! (Yep - I bought some after watching this!)
- I just watched Sgt York with Gary Cooper last night (for about the 50th time). It's based in Tennessee and in one of the scenes they were crushing what looked just like Sorghum in the operation depicted here in this video @5:55. Pretty cool.