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Author: Musufing

All about food, heritage, culture, history, and people. Each episode takes a look at a particular food and shares interesting information about its background and uses. Everyone has food traditions and food stories to tell, some of them will also be shared here. Musufing the creator delves into all stuff foodie from her Jamaican heritage
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Sugar, a Historical Tale of Woe
Episode 2
Thursday, 3 June, 2021

For this episode, Musufing talks about the stuff Britain was largely built on, sugar. She explores the history of sugar from its raw plant beginnings in New Guinea to it's dark industrialised years that have left a deep gash that still weeps. In honour and recognition of enslaved people from then to now. Slavery must end!! Acknowledgements: The Guardian nationalarchives.gov.uk Procede D'extraction Du Sucre de Bette by Franz Achard 1799 Chambers Biographical Dictionary smithsonianmag.com Uncovering britains Links to Slavery, University College London 2013 BBC History Magazine Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Wilfred Mintz 1985 Always No Copyright Music: Medieval Song Village Consort