![]() ![]() Fun and informative, this book will make you appreciate the candy you love even more by revealing the fascinating backstory behind it. There’s more to candy than its sugary taste. She notes that many candies are associated with world’s fairs and other major historical events. Explore the evolution of candy and its impact on history as we know it. She surveys the many uses of chocolate from the cacao bean enjoyed by Olmec Indians to candy bars carried by GIs in World War II. Susan Benjamin traces people’s changing palate over the centuries as roots, barks, and even bugs were savored as treats. These include a deposed Mexican president who ignited the modern chewing gum industry, the Native Americans who created pemmican, an important food, by mixing fruit with dried meat, and the little-known son of a slave woman who invented the sugar-processing machine still in use today. Susan Benjamin, author of the recently released history of American candy Sweet as Sin, estimates that there were as many as 100,000 companies producing candy bars during that decade. Along the way, the reader is treated to an assortment of entertaining facts and colorful characters. The author, a food historian and candy expert, tells the whole story-from the harvesting of the marshmallow plant in ancient Egypt to the mass-produced candy innovations of the twentieth century. As this book shows, candy has a remarkable history, most of it sweet, some of it bitter. ![]() RECOMMENDED BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE AS A BEST BOOK ABOUT FOOD OF 2016! READERS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF FOOD AND AMERICANA WILL SAVOR THIS CULTURAL HISTORY There’s more to candy than its sugary taste. ![]()
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