Steve Wertz, after taking an infinite amount of time, finally, on 12 Aug
2006, typed out:

> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:32:41 -0500, Andy wrote:
>
>> I did find a jar of palm sugar, completing the authenticity of my Thai
>> chicken satay recipe. It's a dark brown coconut sugar (I did not know
>> this!).
>
> Palm sugar is boiled down sap from specific, sugary palm trees.
> Coconut sugar is different - though some people call them all
> "palm sugar". It's made pretty much the same way maple
> syrup/sugar is derived. You will rarely find any actually made
> from coconut palms here in the US. Which is fine since it's
> inferior to standard palm sugar. If it was made from coconuts,
> then it should be labeled that way.
>
> Since you got a jar, it must be granulated then. Most of it that
> exported comes in compressed disks that are pretty hard to work
> with. A few of the importers granulate and repackage it.
>
> -sw


Steve,

What do I know?!! I bought it from the Thai market and it's imported from
Thailand to a company in Maryland.

From which palm trees is the sap milked from that you speak of?

Andy