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Many plantation owners were very wealthy, and became some of the most powerful people in society
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"We think of foie gras as a French delicacy," says King, "but it was well-documented that Apicius was known for feeding his pigs with dried figs and then overdosing them with honeyed wine to produce fatty livers." But at the center of Feast of Sorrow is the view of the ancient Roman world, by turns exciting and cruel, through the eyes of slave Thrasius, a talented cook who is purchased by Apicius for the unimaginable sum of 20,000 denarii, about 10 times the yearly wages of a common soldier

The true Age of Sugar had begun and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire or war had ever done, Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos write in their 2010 book, Sugar Changed the World. Over the four centuries that followed Columbuss arrival, on the mainlands of Central and South America in Mexico, Guyana and Brazil as well as on the sugar islands of the West Indies Cuba, Barbados and Jamaica, among others countless indigenous lives were destroyed and nearly 11 million Africans were enslaved, just counting those who survived the Middle Passage