The World of Sugar
The World of Sugar The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity…
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The World of Sugar
The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic.For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity.
How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way?The World of Sugar begins with the earliest evidence of sugar production. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. Through the Middle Ages, traders brought small quantities of the precious white crystals to rajahs, emperors, and caliphs. But
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