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Modern Marvels: Sugar (2005)

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Overview

For all its sweetness, sugar has a complicated history that stretches all the way back to slave days, a time when the British empire had its eye on controlling sugar production and its profitable by-product, rum. This installment of “Modern Marvels” includes a visit to a Hawaiian sugar plantation to learn how the sweetener is produced today, focusing on the technology that’s turned sugar into one of the most-used substances on the planet.

Length 50 minutes

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