Sweets and Candy: A Global History (Edible)

by Laura Mason

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With eye-catching shapes, interesting flavours and enticing textures, sweets and candy are much-loved worldwide by people of all ages. They provide minor treats, lessons in economics for children, and colourful novelties to mark festivities. Methods for making sweets can be traced back to the importance of sugar in Arabic medicine and the probable origin of this in ancient India. But these seemingly inconsequential items are freighted with centuries of changing cultural attitudes, social and economic history, emotional attachments and divergent views on the role of sugar in health. How did confectionery become so popular? Why do we value concentrated...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781780239279
  • Publish Date 16 April 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 18 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Reaktion Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 168
  • Language English