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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... sweetened rather than just spiced their food , and it was the raison d'être for their dessert . Unlike the French , who confined sugar to dessert and used it sparingly in main courses , the English loved sugar immoderately . In 1603 ...
... sweetened rather than just spiced their food , and it was the raison d'être for their dessert . Unlike the French , who confined sugar to dessert and used it sparingly in main courses , the English loved sugar immoderately . In 1603 ...
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... sweetened the new century — the eighteenth — at about sixpence per pound , the price of a postage stamp . People accustomed to eking out their meager supplies by grating precious granules from a sugar loaf or from bits chopped from a ...
... sweetened the new century — the eighteenth — at about sixpence per pound , the price of a postage stamp . People accustomed to eking out their meager supplies by grating precious granules from a sugar loaf or from bits chopped from a ...
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... sweetened or fatty or both , had prece- dents in the nineteenth century , when " gobble , gulp and go " prevailed among busy workers who valued speedy food service because it gave them more time to work . In mid - nineteenth - century ...
... sweetened or fatty or both , had prece- dents in the nineteenth century , when " gobble , gulp and go " prevailed among busy workers who valued speedy food service because it gave them more time to work . In mid - nineteenth - century ...
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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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