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made from marzipan. Wherever the Arabs settled,
they introduced sugar.
It was not until the eleventh century that
Europeans first tasted sugar. The Crusaders, return-
ing from fighting their enemies in the Holy Land,
brought back small amounts of sugar - white gold, as
it was often called, because it cost as much as that
precious metal!
The Europeans started importing this luxury
product from the Middle East, but such trade was a
daunting and dangerous enterprise because of politi-
cal and religious tensions. Since Europe’s climate
was inhospitable to the cultivation of sugarcane, the
only solution was to find somewhere else to grow it.
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