Free packet of sugar for stepping in the door. You dont seem particularly grateful. So, were thinking about how we are affected by the past. To do what i had just done, handing out a quarter cup of sugar to people who are not my close personal friends, to do that, hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. That is an incredibly extravagant gift. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was treated as medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand out the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Today, it is so common. It is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I paid for these. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is tougher to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give up refined sugar for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in everything. Medicine and pil
And expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. Into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary r easons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the heart of the class. It goes from being a rare and expensive good to being something everyone has access to, which ties closely to the colonization of the americas. To the development of slavery in the new world. This little good we dont think much about is part of a massive reorganization of all the cultures of the atlantic ocean. That what we are talkin
I wanted to hand this out as a lesson, thinking about how were still connected to the past. There are people i dont, they are not my close personal friends, i like you all very much, but to do that, to hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. It was extravagant. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand up the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Now, it is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I pay for it. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is hard to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give it up for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in medicine and pills. How this came to be how it went from being a rare and expensive good to a thing that is so common that it is hard to avoid, this gets to the
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