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400 Years of Sweetness

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This season on the StoryCorps podcast from NPR, we're sharing stories about the stigmas we carry. It doesn't mean that I'm someone that people would look down on. And how it feels when we set them down. In this episode of Through Line from NPR,. we're going to visit the people who've schemed and those who've suffered to bring us sweetness. Part one, the circular trade. Okay. Let's do this. The next step in a 400 year process that took sugar from a rare delicacy for the wealthy to a part of our everyday lives, our culture, and our bodies.

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