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Book The Cost of Sugar

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  • Author : Cynthia McLeod
  • Publisher : HopeRoad
  • Release : 2011-01-07
  • ISBN : 1908446013
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Cost of Sugar written by Cynthia McLeod and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cost of Sugar is an intriguing history of those rabid times in Dutch Surinam between 1765-1779 when sugar was king.Told through the eyes of two Jewish step sisters, Eliza and Sarith, descendants of the settlers of 'New Jerusalem of the River' know today as Jodensvanne. The Cost of Sugar is a frank expose of the tragic toll on the lives of colonists and slaves alike.

Book The Cost of Sugar

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  • Author : Cynthia McLeod
  • Publisher : Hoperoad
  • Release : 2013-09
  • ISBN : 9781908446275
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Cost of Sugar written by Cynthia McLeod and published by Hoperoad. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank exposé of life in a Dutch colony when sugar was king and demanded the consummate allegiance of all.

Book That Sugar Book

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  • Author : Damon Gameau
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2015-03-12
  • ISBN : 1447299728
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book That Sugar Book written by Damon Gameau and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the health documentary That Sugar Film, writer and director Damon Gameau enlists the help of Stephen Fry, Hugh Jackman and leading scientists around the world to shine a light on the terrible effects of sugar. In a Supersize Me-style experiment, he changes his diet to include 40 teaspoons of sugar a day for 60 days - the average daily sugar intake in Australia - and monitors the effect on his body. But here is the catch - he cannot eat chocolate, sweets, ice cream or cake; the sugar must come from 'healthy' foods. In this illustrated That Sugar Book, Damon explains how sugar damages our bodies and our minds, and how easy it is to consume sugar without even knowing it. Revealing the astonishing amounts of sugar hidden in supposedly healthy foods on supermarket shelves - such as low-fat yoghurt, muesli and children's fruit snacks - Damon makes us realise the damage we unknowingly do to ourselves and our families when we make poor food choices, and shows us how to make it right. With an up-close account of Damon's sugar experiment, and sugar-free recipes to help you wean off the white stuff, That Sugar Book is a startling wake-up call to those of us who have never questioned what's really in our food.

Book Sugar at a Second Glance

Download or read book Sugar at a Second Glance written by Frank Clifford Lowry and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queen Sugar

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  • Author : Natalie Baszile
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2014-02-06
  • ISBN : 0698151542
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Queen Sugar written by Natalie Baszile and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay "Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections—to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South. When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.

Book The Cost of the U S  Sugar Program Revisted

Download or read book The Cost of the U S Sugar Program Revisted written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Taste of Sugar

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  • Author : Marisel Vera
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2021-07-06
  • ISBN : 1631499041
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Taste of Sugar written by Marisel Vera and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii—another US territory—where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera’s The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.

Book Sugar

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  • Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 0316125784
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Sugar written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Towers Falling and Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick) comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future. Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu, they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, in turn, shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever.

Book Sugar

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  • Author : James Walvin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-04-03
  • ISBN : 1681777207
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Sugar written by James Walvin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did sugar grow from prize to pariah? Acclaimed historian James Walvin looks at the history of our collective sweet tooth, beginning with the sugar grown by enslaved people who had been uprooted and shipped vast distances to undertake the grueling labor on plantations. The combination of sugar and slavery would transform the tastes of the Western world. Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous, and an everyday necessity. Less than fifty years ago, few people suggested that sugar posed a global health problem. And yet today, sugar is regularly denounced as a dangerous addiction, on a par with tobacco. Masterfully insightful and probing, James Walvin reveals the relationship between society and sweetness over the past two centuries— and how it explains our conflicted relationship with sugar today.

Book Farm to retail Price Linkages for Sugar

Download or read book Farm to retail Price Linkages for Sugar written by William Noel Blisard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: Effects of changes in the farm-level price of sugar on the retail price of various products were examined. A polynomial distributed lag was used to determine if retail prices responded asymmetrically to changes in the farm-level price of sugar, and the length of time required for the price adjustment to occur. Results indicate that retail prices of the five products under consideration do not respond asymmetrically to changes in farm-level prices. Changes in raw sugar price were found to be statistically insignificant for three products. The relationship between changes in retail prices and raw sugar prices was found to be statistically significant for refined sugar and cola-type soft drinks.

Book The Cost of Production of Sugar in German and American Factories

Download or read book The Cost of Production of Sugar in German and American Factories written by Hermann Claassen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sweetness and Power

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  • Author : Sidney W. Mintz
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1986-08-05
  • ISBN : 1101666641
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle

Book Sugar and Spite

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  • Author : Gail D. Villanueva
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2021-04-20
  • ISBN : 1338630946
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Sugar and Spite written by Gail D. Villanueva and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a bully be defeated by a magical love potion? Jolina can't take Claudine's bullying any longer! The taunts and teasing are too much. Though Jolina knows she's still in training to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love potion. And it works. The love potion conquers Claudine's hateful nature. In fact, Claudine doesn't just stop bullying Jolina -- now she wants to be Jolina's BFF, and does everything and anything Jolina asks. But magic comes with a cost, and bad intentions beget bad returns. Controlling another person's ability to love -- or hate -- will certainly have consequences. The magic demands payment, and it is about to come for Jolina in the form of a powerful storm... Magic and reality mingle in this brilliant new middle-grade novel by Gail D. Villanueva that asks whether it's ever okay to take away someone's free will.

Book The Sugar Masters

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  • Author : Richard Follett
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2007-02-01
  • ISBN : 0807132470
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Sugar Masters written by Richard Follett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.

Book Sugar

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  • Author : United States Tariff Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Sugar written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Sugar

Download or read book World Sugar written by Connell Rice and Sugar Co and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sugar Changed the World

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  • Author : Marc Aronson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 9781536406962
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Sugar Changed the World written by Marc Aronson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the panoramic story of the sweet substance and its important role in shaping world history.