Sweet enough for you? -- Myth of the refined palate -- Real taste of strawberry -- Always room for dessert -- Sweet tooth's anonymous -- Does sweet make you fat? -- Let them eat cake -- Guilty pleasures -- More perfect sweetener -- And good for you -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary
A scieontific look at the human love affair with sweets examines our complicated, often conflicted relationship with sweet foods from a historical, socioeconomic, technological, and cultural perspective.
