Question

What evidence from the passage support the inference that sugar was expensive and not available to everyone

Answer 1

Answer:

When knowledge of sugar was just beginning to spread from India, from Persia, from Greece, from the great school of Jundi Shapur, cooks working for the wealthiest people treated it as a spice, blending it with other tastes. They continued to do that for another thousand years.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, we can see that the sugar was expensive and hard to get, as only the wealthiest people could afford it and hire cooks to blend it with other tastes.

Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science is a novel first published in 2010 and written by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. The authors discover the complete history of sugar and its importance in India, Europe, and the Americas.