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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past by Sidney W. Mintz
sandyd's review
4.0
A book on the anthropology of food by a professor who specializes in the Caribbean, the history of slavery, and sugar.
I got bogged down in the jargon once in a while (and I read this particular jargon for a good ten years), but overall it was pretty interesting. I liked the chapters "The Conquest of Honey by Sucrose" and "Sugar and Morality" the most.
Sugar used to be thought of as pure, medicinal, king's food, and sought after (except for those who saw it as contributing to slavery in the Caribbean), and now those that abstain from it claim the higher moral/medicinal ground.
I got bogged down in the jargon once in a while (and I read this particular jargon for a good ten years), but overall it was pretty interesting. I liked the chapters "The Conquest of Honey by Sucrose" and "Sugar and Morality" the most.
Sugar used to be thought of as pure, medicinal, king's food, and sought after (except for those who saw it as contributing to slavery in the Caribbean), and now those that abstain from it claim the higher moral/medicinal ground.
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