Sweeteness and Power

Food is the most important and essential thing for human life. The food has always been considered like a symbol of union. During those last centuries he has become a subject of mutuality because it permit to create a link between individuals. It is like Robertson Smith has said :"those who sit at meal at meat together are united for all social effect". So many thinkers refused this idea of social food". But the question of sweetness has entered immediatly into the debate. The sugar represented this ideas of sweetness.Rapidly the sugar dominated all pattern of food. But how? Some research show that sedentary civilisation meal where all composed of carbohydrates constituted of little sugar. All indigenous and foreigns foods were at this time all essentialy composed of this ingredient. But with the discovery of the sugar his use start to be important. The question that the world want to have a response is where come from sugar. It has not find an exact answer but is an asian good. It come from new guinee where portuguese traders bring it around the world,. His production was first controled arab which spread it in there expansion. But with the grow of european industry he has become an fundamental subsidies for their food. Sugar has begun to be eating cristalized; many technics of preparation were built for his consumption. The sugar started to touched societies on all his forms. All the families depend on it. And finally today it involves nation concerns because it became necessary to the nation destiny. Definitively, Sugar has been marked by his globalization by trade around the world; it has made the tour of the country and become today an important product for everybody.