People have always craved sweetness. Babies are drawn to it, naturally, unlike any other substance. Hundreds of years ago, sugar was the domain of kings and aristocrats. Then, when the English and French turned the Caribbean islands into one gigantic sugar plantation, sugar rapidly became a luxury available even to commoners. The profits from sugar were so vast that sugar helped fund the expanding British and French empires. But it was not always so. Sugar, as an industrial commodity, co…
