Sugar (& Braudel)

[Ted Samsel]

  Well, we could blame the Arabs for sugar (Spanish "azucar" is close
to the Arabic name...), but I seem to recall that Braudel did an
extensive history of the early expansion of sugar trade. And, (ahem)
in my historic archaeology work, many of the various tools and 
methods used in sugar production also have names derived from the
Arabic....

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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