num_pages: 256
description: We all know our sweets. We all remember sweets - objects of pure delight and the endless cause of squabbles fights even hoarding and swapping; a chance to gorge suck crunch and chew. But they're by no means just a nostalgic thing of days past and it's not only children who love and devour sweets. Sweets then are ubiquitous and enduring; they cross age culture and gender boundaries and they have been around it seems forever. This book tells the story of sweets from their primitive beginnings to their place today as a billion pound commodity with its sophisticated seductive packaging and sales advertising and marketing. It explores the people's favourites past and present; but there is also a dark side to sweets - and this book does not shy away from the deleterious effect on health as manifested in obesity tooth decay and diabetes. It delves into sweet and lollyshops in supermarkets and markets retro sweet shops fudge makers vintage sweets on line sweet manufacturing chocolate the grey line between sweets and 'medicines' ancient and modern. It goes round the world sucking licking and crunching sweets from different countries and cultures and it examines how immigrants from all nations have changed our own sweet world.
language: English
title: The History of Sweets
publisher: Pen and Sword History