Sugar: A Bittersweet HistoryPenguin Canada, 2008 - 453 páginas Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing look at how sugar changed the nature of meals, fuelled the Industrial Revolution, generated a brutal new form of slavery, and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. |
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... sugarcane likely originated , legends tell variations of a story about how cane sprouted a woman and a man who , through their offspring , founded the human race . In one story , two fishermen , To - Kabwana and To - Karvuvu ...
... sugarcane likely originated , legends tell variations of a story about how cane sprouted a woman and a man who , through their offspring , founded the human race . In one story , two fishermen , To - Kabwana and To - Karvuvu ...
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... sugarcane was an important Middle Eastern crop . Subsequent Arab expansion and conquest spread it throughout the Mediterranean . By the fifteenth century , sugarcane grew in Madeira , the Canary and Cape Verde islands , São Tomé and ...
... sugarcane was an important Middle Eastern crop . Subsequent Arab expansion and conquest spread it throughout the Mediterranean . By the fifteenth century , sugarcane grew in Madeira , the Canary and Cape Verde islands , São Tomé and ...
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... Sugarcane sap serves as a source of liquid in areas where drinking water is not widely available . It is a medicine and a refreshing drink offered to guests and on ceremo- nial occasions . In traditional societies , its powers chase ...
... Sugarcane sap serves as a source of liquid in areas where drinking water is not widely available . It is a medicine and a refreshing drink offered to guests and on ceremo- nial occasions . In traditional societies , its powers chase ...
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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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