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Sugar is everywhere around us. But just 500 years ago the value of sugar was measured in gold. What changed?

00:00 00:33 Intro
00:33 01:45 Sugar is everywhere
01:45 03:41 Paying the bills with Incogni
03:41 05:14 Origins
05:14 06:20 Sugar becomes a thing in europe
06:20 07:47 Spreading sugar over the world
07:47 09:01 How do you make sugar actually
09:01 13:40 Abolition and modern times
13:41 16:50 How sugar got so big
16:50 17:30 cApiTAlIsm
17:31 19:47 its everywhere
19:47 20:55 consumer actions right now

Sources:
Ulbe Bosma (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) The world of Sugar. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p...
I couldn't have made this video without this epic overview of the history of sugar production. Theres so much I had to leave out, but check out this book if you want to know more.

Sidney W. Mintz Sweetness and power https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
An anthropologic view of sugar consumption. Very well written, that juicy english cuisine quote come from this book.

Michael Moss Salt, Sugar and Fat https://www.amazon.com/SaltSugarFat...
Insightful book in how the food we eat is engineered to make us want more and more and more.

McCants, Anne E. C. “Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: The Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century.” The Economic History Review 61, no. S1 (2008): 172–200. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40057651.
If you want to know how amazingly fast coffee and tea found their way into even the poorest households do check this out.

Noel Deer The History of sugar https://books.google.si/books/about/T...
An older tome, but it has good statistics on the sugar trade.

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