Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar: A book review

Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar, RC 57299, by Peter Macinnis and read by Bill Wallace

Sample quote: "If we need sweetness in our food, perhaps, we should seek other ways of finding it; because right now our joint human sweet tooth looks set to cause a nasty absyss in the environment."

Also see Raising Cane, freelance writer Patricia Gannon's sugar story in the Dec. 22, 2004 issue of the Times: Acadiana's Weekly Newspaper, in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Yep, they do sugar in Louisiana. All is not sweetness about the Central American Free Trade Agreement--which would knock down sugar tariffs, aiding consumers but costing local jobs.

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For those interested in reading a fictionalized account of the 5th or 6th century circumnavigation of Africa, see the following:

Fleet surgeon to Pharaoh, RC 12129

Historical novel about the first sea voyage that takes place in the sixth century B.C. when a Phoenician fleet sails from Egypt around Africa. The central character is a Jewish physician and priest, who goes to Egypt to learn more about the art of medicine after the death of his wife.