From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the … heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades …

"The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia … to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar …. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained …