"This is not simply one of those quirky popular science/history books that takes a commonplace domestic item and builds up a dossier of extraordinary but ultimately useless facts about it. The story of sugar is indeed an extraordinary one, but it is a story of life and death. It is inextricably bound up over the centuries with the development of civilisations, the global spread of slavery, the conduct of brutal wars, the distribution of economic power around the world and the lamentable state of the modern western diet.”

Hardcover 256 pages
ISBN: 1852270349 Virgin Books, 25th November 2004

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