Abbotts book, which discusses the effects of sugar on everything from the haitian revolution to hitlers germany, serves as a grim reminder that a. A manorial survey taken in 1650 indicated that francis billington was then in new england. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch. The billington food group aka billingtons, a sugar company in both the united states and the united kingdom. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. A bittersweet history tells the extraordinary, dramatic and thoughtprovoking story of this most commonplace of products from its very origins to the present day. The illustrated history of how sugar conquered the world. A bittersweet history offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. A bittersweet history offers a perceptive and provocative investigatio. A history of the commodity dwells on body horror and morality, but fails to grasp how capitalism and racism reinforce one another. D jundi shapur, a university in iran, becomes the meeting place for. Billington, lancashire, a larger village in england, united kingdom. Our heritage edward billington and son began trading tea and coffee across the oceans in 1858 and started to import sugar soon after.
Research in the records of the region has yet to turn up any additional details of the family, however. Forbess writing combines the galeforce imagination of margaret atwood with the lyrical pointillism of toni morrison. Elizabeth abbott examines how and in what quantities we still consume sugar. It is this difference which gives billington s sugar its unique richness, depth of flavour and natural colour. The illustrated history of how sugar conquered the world pocket.
A bittersweet history by elizabeth abbott goodreads. From rarefied medicine to colonial invader to public health menace, the story of the worlds most influential flavor. The billington family appears to have originated from in or around cowbit and spaulding, lincolnshire, england, where francis longland named francis billington, son of john billington, as an heir. Billington heights, new york, a hamlet in new york, united states. Will be set up with history of the local area that i have collected thru facebook. Family, corruption, empire, and war in the west indies by matthew parker, the black jacobins.