The World of Sugar

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cultures, and shaping the history of bondage and freedom. A major source of calories only since 1900, sugar has suddenly revolutionized our world.

Traversand 2.500 de ani de istorie globala, Ulbe Bosma arata cum zaharul, candva un lux rezervat imparatilor estici, a starnit o manie in Occident, transformand dietele si ecosistemele, distrugand si creand culturi si modeland istoria robiei si libertatii. Sursa majora de calorii abia din 1900, zaharul a revolutionat brusc lumea noastra.