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Honey Tree Syrups and Sugars: Maple, Birch, Palm Table Sugar: Cane and Beet Sugars and Syrups Corn ...

Molding Chocolate and Health Ordinary sugar is an extraordinary food. Sugar is pure sensation, crystallized ...

whimsical shapes, hidden pockets of hissing gas, and burningly excessive doses of acidity or spice. In ...

history of Africa and the Americas, whose peoples were enslaved to satisfy the European hunger for it. And today, b ...

Gathering honey in prehistoric times. This rock painting, found in the Spider Cave at Valencia, Sp ...

After mother’s milk, the first significant source of sweetness in human experience must have been fruit ...

savory than honey,” and their bedchamber as “honeyfilled.” In the Old Testament, the promised land is pictured ...

Honey comes out of the air...At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey...Whether this is ...

fed the exiled Israelites with manna, which is described as “like coriander seed, white; and the taste of ...

high sucrose content — about 15% — in its fluids. Sugar cane originated in New Guinea in the South Pacific a ...

Around the 6th century CE, both the cane and sugar-making technology were carried westward from the delta ...

Pulled Sugar and Almond Confection in 13th-century Baghdad Medieval Arab cooks were among the first to ex ...

Take a pint of sugar and one-third of a pint of almonds and grind both together fine, then scent w ...

shipment to England that we know of came in At first, Europeans treated sugar the way they treated pepp ...

effects of other foods and enhance the digestive process. A number of soothing medicinal sweets remain popular ...

Platina wrote around 1475 that sugar was being produced in Crete and Sicily as well as India and Arabi ...

Sanskrit sharkara, meaning gravel or small chunks of material; candy from the Arabic version of the Sanskr ...

A Pleasure for All Sugar became more widely available in the 18th century, when whole cookbooks were ...

for “nut cake,” entered the language early in the century; fondant, from the French for “melting,” the basic ...

’Tis too much prov’d, that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself. ( ...