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Sweetness and Desire: A Short History of Sugar Episodes

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    From Medicine to Menace

    5/5 Bee Wilson explores our current anxiety over sugar.

  2. Sugar Wars

    4/5 Bee Wilson explores sugar's role as a cause of conflict.

  3. Slaves to Sweetness

    3/5 Bee Wilson tells the dark history of sugar and slavery.

  4. The Sweet-toothed Nation

    2/5 Food writer Bee Wilson explores Britain's love affair with sugar.

  5. The Lure of Sweetness

    1/5 Bee Wilson explores the history of that most paradoxical of foods, sugar.