Sugar - The Grass that Changed the World
- Virgin Books
- Rok vydání: 2004
- Místo vydání: London
- ISBN: 075351057X
- Jazyk dokumentu: English
- Vydání: first
You don't need a sweet tooth to enjoy this story of a substance that is essential to human life. Yet, necessary as sugar may be to our survival, it can also kill us in even small quantities. And, according to O'Connell, we in the West are heading for trouble in a big way. She examines sugar from various angles - as a simple plant, as a commercial product, as a giver of health and as a potential danger to the human IQ. Going back to prehistory she reveals that our ancestors never really knew what it was, still less that in its pure form it existed in every cell of their bodies. A strange alliance of Buddhist monks and Arab traders turned the world on to its sweetest product and that led to the slave trade, millions of deaths, and a decadence that has become endemic. O'Connell's journey through sugary highways and byways is full of sweet revelations.(Kirkus UK)
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