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Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar
 
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Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar (Paperback)
by Peter Macinnis (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin (13 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1865086576
  • ISBN-13: 978-1865086576
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 880,432 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Forty years after first chewing on sugar cane in New Guinea, the home of sugar, the author underwent some complex dental work as a direct result of his sweet tooth. This led him to explore sugar cane's journey from New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. In the days before dentistry, people paid dearly for this sweet new food from exotic places - Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras, sugared almonds and pastilles that her teeth turned completely black. Through the ages sugar has offered opportunities of tremendous riches to the unscrupulous few who grew and sold it. But in the days of manual processing, these fortunes were built on the backbreaking labour of slaves. This history explores the effects that sugar has had on the world - a foodstuff we take for granted and indulge in more than we should has caused wars and geopolitical balances that have shaped the modern world and the power balances we see in the 21st century.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet, 19 Jan 2004
The title of this book is very apt. It is an informative read and at the end one realises that the human history of sugar has bought it's fair share of suffereing. At 176 pages, don't expect an encyclopaedic work. What you do get in abundance is the history of sugar production and trade.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Well research