ANTHROP 4CP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Sugar Substitute, Preservative, Starch
18 Dec 2019
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Can"t imagine life w/o sugar so important in our lives. First acknowledged in eng in the 12th c. 3 consumption: rare substances consumed by rich but ordinary inds consumed meager food, wheat, rye, buckwheat, oats starch based diet grain the diet of the poor, working inds feared fruit galenic biases. Even after pop started to increase after plague, agriculture was unproductive: critical problem in the 16th c. 17th c led to significant change population rose, but had greater disease due to poor nutrition and gin drinking: the poor were too poor to eat (labouring classes) Even w the introduction of other foods, it was largely inaccessible. Fully embedded in modern life in 18th c: but was first acknowledged in england as a spice and medicine, preserving may be one of oldest purposes medicine coated in sugar (preserve) Differences in quantity and form of consumption expressed social and economic differences w/in national population. Prized among the wealthy from the crusades onward.
