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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... 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 , offering a basic annual per capita ration of 14.56 kilograms of sugar and 5.72 kilograms of jam . The ... sweetened in its place . Even Adolf Hitler knew better than to deprive his people of sugar . Part 4 The Sweetening ...
... sweetened , offering a basic annual per capita ration of 14.56 kilograms of sugar and 5.72 kilograms of jam . The ... sweetened in its place . Even Adolf Hitler knew better than to deprive his people of sugar . Part 4 The Sweetening ...
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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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