...David Haeselin Sugar beets grown in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota are the most important source of American-made sugar. Contemporary sugar production and consumption provoke some bitter disagreements. Local growing and processing of sugar beets is an essential economic driver...

... of items like white bread and sugar. While such critiques have much in common with contemporary food nostalgia, this article points to a unique preoccupation of the more recent dietary critiques—the obesity epidemic. © 2017 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please...

...Jon Holtzman Sugar holds a special place in both public policy and scientific debate, each of which frequently attributes to it a unique, intrinsic power. A rather deterministic view of sugar is asserted in a range of scholarly fields, including findings of parallels between the brain's response...

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... the marks of an existential quest that constantly redefines man's symbolic relation to the forces and contrasts of life. ©© 2010 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. 2010 Sicily confectionery semiotics cultural anthropology history of taste sweets sugar...