how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years
- Bosma, Ulbe
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2023
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 ...