Sugar

by Sanjida O'Connell

Book Overview

Our lust for sugar has changed the shape of the world economically culturally and scoially. Sanjida O' Connell reveals, in accessible and scintillating prose, the extraordinary and illuminating story of sugar's journey from a grass to world domination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075351057X
• ISBN13: 9780753510575
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sweet reading

Not been an historian or academic type, I am thoroughly satisfied with the way this author has presented her researches into the interesting history of sugar. From its humble beginning as a grass in the plains of New Guinea ten thousand years ago, to the building of nations, transiting through its modes of manufacturing, O'Connell gives us a travelogue of the trail and travails of sugar and its impact on human history, our current history, as no other author I have read on the subject of foodstuffs has. (I once had to return a book on the history of the potato due to its starchy style.) If, like me, you are hungry for knowledge and enjoy storytelling, this is a book you most definitely need to buy. And, who knows, it may put you off manufactured sugar and its derivatives altogether! Which is not a bad thing given that we humans do not need it in order to survive. Want to know more? Read the book.