The Sugar Economy and Its Culinary Consequences
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Origin
Sugar — more than any other commodity — drove the transatlantic slave trade. The specific demand for sugar in European markets created the plantation system in the Caribbean and South America; the plantation system required enslaved African labour; the scale of enslaved African labour transport was determined by the scale of the sugar economy. Understanding the culinary history of sugar is inseparable from understanding the history of slavery.
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Description
Sugar's role in the slave trade and the culinary consequences.
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The Thread
—West African palm sugar cooking (same sweetener-in-savoury-cooking principle), Indian jaggery (same unrefined cane sugar in cooking), Mexican piloncillo (same unrefined cane sugar — colonial connectio
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Flavour Context
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