Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryDuckworth Overlook, 2009 - 453 páginas In 'Sugar', Elizabeth Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar & tells its extraordinary story, from its origins in the South Pacific, to the way it transformed eating habits in the 19th century, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, & generated a brutal new form of slavery & colonial oppression in the developing world. |
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... coffee , popu- larized these beverages as nothing else had . ( Teahouses came only in the late nineteenth century . ) As with tea , clients sweetened their coffee with sugar . Diluting tea and coffee with milk took longer to catch on ...
... coffee , popu- larized these beverages as nothing else had . ( Teahouses came only in the late nineteenth century . ) As with tea , clients sweetened their coffee with sugar . Diluting tea and coffee with milk took longer to catch on ...
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... coffee - addicted daughter Lieschen . “ If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily , then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat , " Lieschen trilled . As Bach well knew , legions of people shared ...
... coffee - addicted daughter Lieschen . “ If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily , then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat , " Lieschen trilled . As Bach well knew , legions of people shared ...
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... coffee and tea , it spread quickly into the coffeehouses , though it was much more expensive , in the late seventeenth century more than double the price of tea and coffee , eight sous a cup in the Left Bank . Chocolate was a delight ...
... coffee and tea , it spread quickly into the coffeehouses , though it was much more expensive , in the late seventeenth century more than double the price of tea and coffee , eight sous a cup in the Left Bank . Chocolate was a delight ...
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The Oriental Delight Conquers the West | 9 |
The Africanization of the Cane Fields | 75 |
The World the Whites Made | 121 |
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