[Sca-cooks] Sugar beets

[Terry Decker]

Sugar cane was encountered in India by Alexander's general, Nearchus, around 
325 BCE.  By 500 CE, it was growing and being refined in Mesopotamia.  While 
it is uncertain whether or not it was brought into the Mediterranean region 
before the Islamic expansion, the cultivation was definite spread by Islamic 
cultures.  Medieval and Renaissance sugar was cane sugar.

Bear

> So what was other then honey  their sugar base? I was always told it was 
> of beets. Now I am confused, another layer of misinformation and 
> conclusion.
> Cealian Of Moray