Cultural influences on the sweets

Sugar may today be perceived as a reason for the obesity pandemic being experienced in the western world today, but its image was not always such a negative one. There was a time in history when sugar was more expensive than gold, when the use of this ‘white gold’ was restricted only to the echelons of society which could afford it. The origins of sugar started in Southeast Asia and India gently meandering its way towards the Middle East, where sugar was first cultivated through sugarcane. Over the ensuing centuries sugar became as precious a commodity as silks and spices, … Read more