FST 50 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-30: Maple Sugar, White Bread, Seebohm Rowntree
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Sweetness and power: the place of sugar in modern history. One cannot simply assume that everyone has an infinite desire for sweetness, any more than one can assume the same about a desire for comfort or wealth or power. In order to examine these questions in a specific historical context, i will look at the history of sugar consumption in great. 1 food, socialty, and sugar (intro, p. 28) in ch. 1, author opens the subject of the anthropology of food and eating as part of an anthropology of modern life, leading to a discussion of sweetness (not sweet substances). Sweetness defined sweetness is a taste (what hobbes called a. Quality substances that excite the sensation of sweetness. Fruit and honey were major sources of sweetness for the english before 1650. Like languages and all other socially acquired group habits, food systems dramatically demonstrate the infraspecific variability of humankind.
