PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewJames Walvin’s new book, Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity, will thoroughly disabuse you of such agreeable associations and may make you reluctant to reach for something sweet ... Walvin, the author of several books on slavery, takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride through 500 years of history ... Sugar is an entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity ... Sugar could have used another round of edits — it is maddeningly repetitive ... Sugar raises fundamental questions about our world. It does not resolve all those questions, but it provides enough information for its readers to begin to see some answers.
