While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

We're tap dancing with delight - December 17 is National Maple Syrup Day!

This sweet-water sap shouldn't be stuck with just waffles and pancakes. Try it in a latte, mix it into a toasty winter cocktail or even add it to spaghetti, as Will Ferrell notoriously did in the holiday favorite “Elf.”

Pore over the label carefully, though: Pure maple syrup is solely produced from North American maple trees. Last year, a Rhode Island man named Bernard Coleman was sentenced to two years probation for substituting cane sugar in a product he labeled as “maple syrup.”