Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Re: Blown Sugar is Chinese Apparently
Phlip
phlip at 99main.com
Fri Oct 28 09:07:21 PDT 2005
Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> Phlip, maybe you can post this?
Done ;-)
> Sugar was common in India and south China by the Medieval period--in
> China by Song (11th or 12th century). It was not really all that
> common in Eliz England. It was a big elite deal. It was a
> spice--expensive and usually used in tiny amounts. Real conspicuous
> consumption was making jam or preserves, an idea they'd gotten
> indirectly from the Moors not much earlier. Even the Chinese and
> Indians weren't using it in anything like modern amounts, but they
> did have a fair amount of it. The Arabs brought sugar cane to
> Europe, so Europe was producing some from the middle middle ages (?!)
> on. But not much. Sugar took off as a European food only with the
> rise of plantations and slavery, in the 18th century. See Sid Mintz
> SWEETNESS AND POWER and (more a personal note, because it started as
> a thesis that I was an adivsor on) Sucheta Mazumdar SUGAR AND SOCIETY IN
CHINA.
> best--Gene Anderson
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