Δ The World in a Spoon: The bitter history of the sweet stuffA world without sugar? Inconceivable! Sugar has long been a central and irreplaceable component in global food supplies. Its 10,000-year expansion is linked not only with a revolutionary change in global eating habits, but just as closely with the history of colonialism and slavery.
In a brief introductory lecture Sebastian Schellhaas will offer an insight into the cultural history of sugar from its origins in Melanesia to its present-day ubiquity. In the subsequent baking workshop, Moroccan confectioner Ahmed Kabadi will prepare samples from one of the world’s oldest confectionery traditions together with the participants.
Moroccan confectionery workshop with short introductory lecture
with Ahmed Kabadi (confectioner) and Sebastian Schellhaas (gastro-anthropologist)
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