How about that for a change of pace?
OK, I admit it. I’ve been gone a while. I have received, what I guess you couldn’t really describe as ‘hate mail’ but neither was it ‘fan mail’, messages to the effect that I suck for disappearing. I apologize.
However, it has been an interesting month… I’ve dragged this book idea around… writing and deleting hundreds of pages (seriously)… quitting… restarting… even losing a hard-drive in the midst of all that… and coming to the conclusion that I’d just cast too wide a net. The good news is that I now have the beginnings of at least three separate books. The bad news is that I have the end of none.
Let us pause for a moment of silence for my garden, the biggest victim in all this. While it hasn’t quite reverted to the state in which I found it, it is a mess. I’m sorry garden. You were good to me, and I ignored you. I promise to clean you up, plant cover crops, and give you the love you deserve next spring.
OK, so, what does all this have to do with sweeteners? I’ll give you a hint: the average American eats 160 lbs. of sugar by most accounts. About 100 years ago (keeping in mind that they just released evidence of the oldest human remains from 4+ MILLION years ago), we ate 5 lbs. each. I would guess that it wasn’t too many centuries before that that we ate no added sugar. There probably wasn’t any aside from the occasional (and precious) honey, which I hesitate to add to the list because of the complexity of the stuff.
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