• Sugar was a luxury good only consumed by the wealthy
• Used as a sculpting ingredient to form elaborate food art known as “subtleties”
• Demand for sugar drove colonization, wars, slavery in Caribbean
• Triangular system of trade between England, Africa, Caribbean for sugar
  • Guns, cloth, iron are exported from England to Africa for slaves
  • Slaves are exported from Africa to Caribbean for cheap labor
  • Sugar is exported from Caribbean to England for profits