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Tag: #Sugar

Browse our collection of food history articles exploring the legacy, heritage, and stories behind Sugar.

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Glossy dulce de leche beside milk, sugar, pastries, and a wooden spoon
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Dulce de Leche

How slow-cooked milk and sugar became a shared confection across Latin America, with no single securely documented inventor

Latin America and Iberian dairy-sugar traditions5 min read
Dark molasses poured beside sugarcane, rum, gingerbread, and an old trade map
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Molasses

How sugar refining created a sticky commodity tied to plantation labor, Atlantic trade, animal feed, industrial alcohol, and enduring regional recipes

Sugar-refining regions across Asia, the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Atlantic world6 min read
Golden-brown panela blocks beside sugarcane, a wooden mill, coffee, and aguapanela
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Panela

How boiled cane juice became molded sugar across Latin America through Indigenous landscapes, colonial labor, village mills, and modern identity

Latin America, with strong regional traditions in Colombia and neighboring countries6 min read