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History of Sugar
Before it was a grocery staple, sugar was a luxury so precious it was called "white gold." Before it was white gold, it was a wild grass growing on the islands of New Guinea — chewed for pleasure by people who had no idea what they'd set in motion.
In this episode of Hidden History, we trace sugar's full journey: from its crystallization in ancient India around 350 CE, through the culinary revolution of the Islamic Golden Age, to Christopher Columbus carrying sugarcane cuttings to the New World on his second voyage.
What followed was one of history's most brutal economic systems — the…
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