No Blood for Sugar

We want the Honey without the Bees and we want it now!

I'm reading Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For More Food, his book about baking.

He touches on the history of sugar. He writes the Arabs had perfected the technique required to take the white crystals from the sugarcane plant and were exporting the stuff into Europe for $500 a spoonful.

Finally Europe got fed up being stuck in the dark ages while the Arabs were living the good life, so they launched a thinly veiled religious operation called "the Crusades." One of their goals was to get sugar.

Ah, yes.

Oil. Spices. Sugar. Want. It. Now. Give it.

MVL