Название: The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
Автор: Ulbe Bosma
Издательство: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674279395
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 465
Размер: 39,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

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. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity.