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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Fergus M. Bordewich, Trouble By the Spoonful. Wall Street Journal, Mar. 31,
2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704896104575140631370218958.html
(book review on Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar: A bittersweet History. Overlook
Press, 2010)
("Sugar was unknown to ancient Europeans. When the Greeks and Romans
sweetened their feasts, it was with honey. 'The noble cane,' as it was once
called, was first domesticated in New Guinea. By the late centuries B.C. it
was known in India, and from the | f**d
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发帖数: 6973 | 3 Sugar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
("Traveling Buddhist monks brought sugar crystalization methods to China.
During the reign of Harsha (r. 606–647) in North India, Indian envoys in
Tang China taught sugarcane cultivation methods after Emperor Taizong of
Tang (r. 626–649) made his interest in sugar known, and China soon
established its first sugarcane cultivation in the seventh century. Chinese
documents confirm at least two missions to India, initiated in 647 AD, for
obtaining technology
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: 有意思，中国是什么时候知道的？
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